Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Pekin
17.11.2013 · Pekin · Illinois · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
6
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
4 km
Max. width
4 m
Duration
2
Injured
10
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 2
- Damage track width
- 4
- Maximum damage track width
- 4 m
- Damage track length
- 4 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert, Description of the damage, for example in a newspaper
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_November_to_December_2013#November_17_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 10
- Fatalities
- 0
- Position
- N of Pekin
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
6 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
forum.tornado-map.info open externally
Source
Quelle
spc.noaa.gov
Link
3
Info
1
Info
Info
Over 200 homes in Pekin were damaged, 75 of which were left uninhabitable. Homes and apartment buildings lost their roofs, and many trees and power lines were downed. Ten people were injured. This tornado was a precursor to the East Peoria/Washington tornado.
Key facts
- Date
- 17.11.2013
- Time
- 10:52:00
- Location
- Pekin
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
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