Hook Echo on Radar
As the storm passed a short distance north of the radar, an appendage became visible on the parent echo. Within a few moments, the echo appendage began to curl into a hook shape seen here.
Courtesy of CSU-CHILL National Radar Facility, http://www.chill.colostate.edu/w/File:Hook_anot.jpg
CSU-CHILL National Radar Facility
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Don Skaggs Observing Historic Radar Photographs
"Don Skaggs looks at the new display commemorating the first time a tornado was tracked by radar" <em>The News-Gazette</em>, August 30, 2001
Robert K. O'Daniell
The News-Gazette Negative Collection, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
The News-Gazette
08/30/2001
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Tornado Overturns Car in Sadorus
"Sadorus was hit hard with 15 families left homeless thereā¦cars and trucks flipped like playthings" <em>The News-Gazette</em>, March 21, 1976.
Jean Konda
News-Gazette Negative Collection, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
The News-Gazette
03/21/1976
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Tornado's Path through Three Counties
"Map shows the path of the tornado through three counties." <em>The News-Gazette</em>, March 17, 1942.
News-Gazette Microfilm, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library.
The News-Gazette
03/17/1942
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Destruction of Mrs. Aletha Rowland's House
"This scene of destruction shows the wreckage of the home in which Mrs. Aletha Rowland, mother of nine children, was fatally injured in the tornado which struck east central Illinois Monday." <em>The News-Gazette</em>, March 17, 1942.
"Tornadoes" Photographs Envelope, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
The News-Gazette.
03/17/1942
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Destruction from Alvin Tornado
A photo that shows the extent of the damage in Alvin from the March 17, 1942 tornado.
Joe Blessman
"Tornadoes" Photographs Envelope, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
The News-Gazette
03/17/1942
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July 14, 1917 Urbana Courier Headline
A newspaper clipping with a headline that reads "Tornado Sweeps Champaign County; One Killed, Many Hurt, Crops Ruined".
Courier Microfilm, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Urbana Courier
07/14/1917
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Path of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado
This image shows the path that the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 took through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
Stanley A. Changnon
Courtesy of Stanley A. Changnon's report "Two Record Long Tornadoes in Illinois and Their Major Impacts" published in Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science (2009), Volume 102, nos. 3&4, pp. 175-180.
2009
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1976 Double Funnel Tornado
A tornado with two funnels was seen in March 1976 on the west side of Sidney, Illinois.
Frank Grussing
03/20/1976
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1948 Tornado Funnel
The funnel of a tornado that occurred in 1948, that traveled from Leverett to Flatville to Penfield in Champaign County, Illinois.
"Tornadoes" Photographs Envelope, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
04/07/1948
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