Saturday, December 1 provided a new record for Illinois with 27 tornados. The new record is now the largest outbreak during December in Illinois history, the previous record was 21 tornadoes back in 1957 says Warning Coordination Meteorologist Chris Miller.
Many of the tornadoes hitting Illinois affected several counties in Central Illinois, such as Christian, McLean, and Macon. Christian County having one of the largest of all the tornadoes hitting Illinois says, Miller.
Tornadoes are pretty uncommon in December, but there were a right set of conditions there to develop says, Miller.
DeWitt County was fortunate not being hit with any tornadoes, but that was due to some weather fronts being produced by the storms says, Miller.
DeWitt still received some rain and hail with storms coming in, but it escaped the stronger winds.
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