The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak was a destructive tornado outbreak and severe weather event that occurred on April 21, 1967, across the central Midwest, in particular the towns of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States. Locally known as 'Black Friday,' it was the largest tornado outbreak of 1967 and has been described by NWS Chicago as "Northern Illinois' worst tornado disaster".[2] The outbreak produced numerous and significant (F2+) tornadoes, with ten of them in Illinois alone. Included was one of just six documented violent (F4/F5) tornadoes in the Chicago metropolitan area since the area was first settled.[3][4]
Meteorological synopsis
April 21, 1967 was a warm Friday afternoon in northern Illinois. Following a foggy morning with temperatures in the middle 50s °F, temperatures rose rapidly in the afternoon as low geopotential heights approached from the southwest.[5] A warm front—part of a very deep shortwavetrough—passed through Illinois all day and by afternoon moved north of the state. As a low-pressure area within an extratropical cyclone approached the area, temperatures rose into the low to mid 70s°F with dew points rising into the 60s°F, an upper-level jet reaching 120-knot (220 km/h), and increasing low-level vertical shear. Meanwhile, a persistent mesolowfeature near Joliet, Illinois,[5] helped to maintain backed low-level winds from the south.[6]
As conditions became more favorable for tornadoes and supercells began developing in the Chicago area, the regional U.S. Weather Bureau office issued a tornado watch at 1:50 p.m. CDT covering the northern half of Illinois plus southern Wisconsin, eastern Iowa, and western Indiana.[5] By 3 p.m. CDT/2100 UTC, more than 12 tornadoes had already been spawned from the storm system.[6]
Tornado completely leveled all buildings except the house at one farm site and destroyed one wall of the house.[4] Tornado may have formed from the same thunderstorm that struck Cameron, but the time does not suggest this.[7]
Tornado destroyed eight homes, severely damaged seven others, and shattered glass windows[7] as it hit Humphreys.[4] Two children and a woman were injured in their trailer, as were four men sheltering inside a barn.[7] Grazulis rated the tornado F3.[4]
Four homes and several barns were completely leveled while two people received minor injuries.[4] Three or more funnels and erratic shifts in the damage path were reported to have occurred,[7] suggesting that the long-tracked tornado was in fact a tornado family.[4]
This tornado may have actually included two or more touchdowns, implying that the single event was two or more tornadoes. It caused minor damage to a porch and to farm buildings along its skipping path.[7] Grazulis did not rate the tornado as significant (F2+).[4]
Tornado damaged 12 or more farms with only minimal F2 intensity at most.[4] The damage path was very discontinuous, with only isolated patches of "extensive damage."[7]
Numerous funnel clouds occurred with multiple reports of tornadoes. First tornado touched down north of Orion with isolated touchdowns to beyond Hooppole, with significant non-tornado-related wind damage.[7] Tornado killed livestock,[7] destroyed farm buildings, and uprooted trees.[4]
Tornado destroyed barns[4] and blew down trees. Two distinct damage paths and funnel clouds observed, suggesting that a family of two tornadoes was involved.[7]
Two tornadoes touched down 2 miles (3.2 km) apart from each other but are listed as one tornado. One tornado damaged structures and broke glass and trees at Northern Illinois University while uplifting a roof 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south with $50,000 (1967 USD) roof damage. Second tornado damaged farms simultaneously about 8 miles (13 km) to the south, but with discontinuous damage.[7] Probably a tornado family.
Tornado destroyed one barn[4] and caused roof and wall damage to Elgin State Hospital.[7] Also badly damaged a factory. The state hospital sustained $100,000 in damages.
Tornado struck 3 homes on the north side of Batavia before damaging 25 homes in Geneva. Some of the homes lost roofs and walls. 20 homes were also damaged in Streamwood.[8]
Struck the south side of Grand Rapids. 65 buildings were destroyed, and 60 others were badly damaged. 375 buildings sustained minor damage. A church and a K-Mart store were completely destroyed.[4]
School under construction leveled, pieces carried 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) away. Several barns and outbuildings leveled as well.[7] Grazulis did not rate the tornado as significant (F2+).[4]
This violent destroyed buildings on 10 farms. Three homes were destroyed, 18 others were damaged, and 34 sheep were killed in 2 barns. Grazulis rated the tornado F3.[4]
The F4 tornado that struck the Belvidere-Harvard-Woodstock area was responsible for one of the highest tornado-related death tolls in a single school building ever recorded when it struck Belvidere High School as multiple school buses were being loaded.[citation needed] At 3:50 P.M., a violent multiple vortex tornado, later given an F4 rating, moved through Belvidere, Illinois, damaging the high school and overturning buses.[5][4] A total of 24 people were killed with 13 of the dead in Belvidere at Belvidere High School, making this tornado the sixth deadliest ever to hit a school.[6] 410 people were injured as well and 127 homes destroyed with another 379 being damaged.[5][4] The Belvidere tornado was especially devastating because it hit the school just as students were getting on the buses to go home.[5] Just before 4 p.m. CDT, the tornado reached the school. Twelve buses, already filled with elementary- and middle-school students, were tossed about. Several of the students were tossed into adjacent fields and killed.[5] A bus driver was killed as well. Shortly after the passing of the tornado, faculty and some of the stronger students used the fireproof doors of the high school as stretchers to carry the injured into the cafeteria, the severely injured into the library, and the dead into the gymnasium. Four hundred cars (three hundred new cars and 100 employee cars) were destroyed at the Belvidere Assembly Plant.[2] A school bus on a roadway south of Harvard was thrown into power lines and torn in half. The driver and students survived by sheltering in a ditch.
The second violent tornado of the day in Illinois may have developed as far southwest as Elgin but was first observed at about 5:00 p.m. CDT near Fox River Grove,[6][7] though its path is officially believed to have begun near Middlebury. It then produced a discontinuous[7] damage path through Fox River Grove, North Barrington, and Lake Zurich.[6] The most intense damage, given an F4 rating, occurred at Lake Zurich Manor, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of downtown Lake Zurich; there, roughly 75 homes were leveled and 200 severely damaged.[6] The Acorn Acres subdivision, northeast of and adjoining Lake Zurich Manor, reported scattered damage and debris with about 12 homes severely damaged.[6] According to official plots from Storm Data, the tornado lifted after hitting Acorn Acres, though non-tornadic damages to trees and buildings occurred as far as the intersection of Illinois Route 63 and Gilmer Road. There, severe winds, possibly downbursts, destroyed four homes, one brewery, and a plastic-manufacturing site, though at least one source indicates that the tornado was likely still present at that place.[6] In all, the tornado killed one person, and damaged 400–500 homes and destroyed about 100 other homes.[7][4] An air-conditioning unit weighing 1,000 lb (16,000 oz) was thrown .5 mi (0.80 km). Cars were picked up and tossed as well.[4]
Oak Lawn–Evergreen Park–Chicago South Side, Illinois
Oak Lawn–Evergreen Park–Chicago South Side, Illinois
The third violent tornado to affect Illinois this day was also the deadliest tornado of the entire outbreak. The F4 tornado that swept through Palos Hills, Oak Lawn, Hometown, Evergreen Park, and skipped through Chicago's Southside, killed 33 people. The path of this tornado was 16 miles long, and at times 200 yards (180 m) wide. It dissipated at Rainbow Beach on Lake Michigan.
An intense supercell with a hook echo on weather radar first appeared at 4:45 p.m. CDT about 18 miles (29 km) west-northwest of Joliet. Later, at 5:15 p.m., an employee of the U.S. Weather Bureau observed a rotating wall cloud about 10 miles (16 km) north of Joliet. Minutes later, severe thunderstorm winds blew out windows in a building, though no tornado or funnel cloud had yet occurred.[11] Near the Little Red Schoolhouse, in what is now the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, an observer first noted a funnel cloud to the south, moving east with hail up to .75 inches (19 mm) in diameter—but he was unable to report to the Weather Bureau as his telephone failed to give a dial tone.[11] At 5:24 p.m. CDT, a tornado touched down at the present-day campus of Moraine Valley Community College[6] and moved east-northeast, mainly at 70° heading.[7] As it touched down, the tornado bent power poles and blew down small trees and vegetation, tossing dirt as it went. It then grew in size to 450 feet (150 yd) wide and entered Palos Hills, destroying about five buildings—including two frame homes and a brick home—and snapping trees.[11] Subsequently, the intensifying funnel severely damaged homes and a drive-in theater[6] in a half-block-wide area of Chicago Ridge.[11]
Over the next six minutes, the tornado attained its maximum intensity as it tore a 16.2-mile (26.1 km) swath of damage through Oak Lawn, Hometown, and Evergreen Park at a 60-mile-per-hour (97 km/h) ground forward speed.[6] As it passed through the business district of Oak Lawn, the tornado leveled many homes that were built entirely of brick.[11] In Oak Lawn, the tornado threw 25–40 vehicles from the intersection of Southwest Highway and W. 95th St. (US-12/20),[6] killing 16 people who were stuck in traffic during the rush hour.[5] At the same intersection, the tornado destroyed the gym at Oak Lawn Community High School, including the locker room to which the students had been evacuated. Though none were killed, several students were injured. Seven shoppers were killed across the street when the roof of a grocery store collapsed on them.[12]
This tornado ended up being the deadliest of the outbreak.[11] It destroyed the brick pro shop at Beverly Country Club at 87th and Western Avenue, trapping several people who suffered only minor injuries. As it moved beyond Evergreen Park, the tornado weakened and widened as it caused lighter damage to vegetation, roofs, and garages. It finally moved offshore as a waterspout at Rainbow Beach, producing a wind gust up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) at a water filtration plant on the lakefront shore.[11] In all, the tornado killed 33 people, including several children at a roller skatingrink, and injured 1,000.[13] It destroyed 152 homes and damaged 900, causing $40 million in damage. The destroyed buildings included a high school, grocery store, tavern, market, motel, drive-in theater, restaurant, numerous apartments, and two gas stations. Additionally, the tornado caused numerous fires in Oak Lawn which were quickly extinguished.[13]
Recovery difficulties
Just two days after the outbreak, three inches (76 mm) of snow fell on Belvidere, which only exacerbated the cleanup from Friday's tornadoes. In fact, many cities and towns in the Midwest broke record overnight lows on April 24 and 25. A state of emergency was declared for Boone County, and the reserves came to assist in the cleanup effort.
Legacy
The tornado has its own section in the Oak Lawn Public Library.[14]
^Grazulis, Thomas P (July 1993). Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991. St. Johnsbury, Vermont: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films. ISBN1-879362-03-1.
^ abcdefgFeris, Charles; James Vermoch, Henry Yario (1967). "The Oak Lawn Tornado: April 21, 1967"(PDF). U.S. Weather Bureau forecast office. p. 10. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 13, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
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