Торнадо в Кантоне, Иллинойс: разрушительные события 1975 и 1835 годов.

Tornado event in the United States

The Canton, Illinois Tornadoes of 1975 was a destructive summer tornado event which occurred as part of a significant severe thunderstorm outbreak concentrated from eastern Iowa across northern and central Illinois on the afternoon and evening of July 23, 1975.

Widespread significantly severe damaging wind occurred in many areas across eastern Iowa and the northwestern third of Illinois. Many corn fields were flattened, trees were downed, and light structural damage occurred. Power was cut to thousands across the western and northwestern suburbs of Chicago. A wind gust of was measured near Peoria and a funnel cloud was spotted at Groveland. Lightning also damaged several houses and buildings. One woman was killed when venturing outside to close her car windows and a six story International Harvester warehouse was ignited into a large fire in Canton, Illinois.

Before that tornado lifted, a second tornado touched down to the left of the first tornado at 4:45 p. m. on the east side of Fiatt, and it too in conjunction with intense downburst winds proceeded in a meandering path roughly eastward roughly along Route 9. There was no break in the damage because of the proximity of the tornadoes and the accompanying exceptionally intense downburst activity. All stores except for those selling food were forced to close, most perishable food required trashing, and the town was immediately closed to non residents not on official business.—value of 150.

Canton and surrounding areas were devastated by an earlier tornado on June 18, 1835. Touching down around 10 p. m., it decimated rural farms, killing four; before it traversed through Canton, killing four in town, including the town's founder and his young son. Injuries totaled forty. This tornado damaged or destroyed about fifty buildings in Canton with a total damage width of about 0.25 mile (0 km).