By Brian Walder
CENTRAL ILLINOIS (25 News) – Thursday’s forecast called for an isolated risk of a strong or severe storm, and that’s exactly what happened early Thursday evening.
While most just saw some needed and beneficial rain, one cell was able to trigger a few Severe Thunderstorm Warnings as it moved up the Illinois River.
25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Brian Walder says the area also saw our first Tornado Warning of the year too, although it only included a few square miles of southwestern Fulton County.
Heavy rain, hail and frequent lightning were the biggest impacts from these storms. While most of our hail reports ranged from pea to penny size, there were a few reports of severe hail. This is defined as 1″ in diameter or larger.
The largest hail report was near Manito at 1.25″ (half dollar size) as well as 1″ (quarter size) reports near Tremont and Bellevue.
Peoria saw 0.36″ of rain today and Bloomington received 0.12″. We still need a lot more to bust our drought, but this is the most that we’ve seen in Peoria in over one month.
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