Sunday's rains easily set records at several National Weather Service sites in central Illinois Sunday.

Ed Shimon from the National Weather Service in Lincoln on the WHOW Morning Show Monday told Regional Radio their locations in Springfield, Lincoln and Peoria saw record rainfall for the calendar day.

Sunday started cool but a warm front moved in from the south that warmed the air up. Shimon says it was a noticeable difference in temperatures throughout the day.

There were some tornadoes, mostly in western Illinois Sunday. Shimon says central Illinois was largely spared from the anticipated severe weather that the weather service was predicting.