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The APS-15 radar located on top of the Illinois State Water Survey building at the University of Illinois – Willard Airport.

Photograph by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency that shows the extent of the destruction in Gifford.

“Cecil Hudson, near Myra Station, is one of the many area residents whose farms and homes were damaged by storms last weekend.” Courier, March 6, 1961.

April 19, 1996 tornado trail published in The News-Gazette, April 21, 1996

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.

"Map shows the path of the tornado through three counties." The News-Gazette, March 17, 1942.

"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." The News-Gazette, March 17, 1942.

A newspaper clipping with a headline that reads "Tornado Sweeps Champaign County; One Killed, Many Hurt, Crops Ruined".

The funnel of a tornado that occurred in 1948, that traveled from Leverett to Flatville to Penfield in Champaign County, Illinois.

Portions of a map that shows the tornadoes of the Super Outbreak of 1974.