Clinton County Communities Face Major Tornado Damage Survey

CLINTON COUNTY - Clinton County, Illinois, showed tornado damage on Monday, April 27, 2026, the National Weather Service said, as severe weather moved through the region. The NWS said surveyors had been dispatched to Clinton County on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, and the Carlyle area to check the damage.

Clinton County Sheriff Dan Travous said in a statement issued April 27, 2026, that “multiple areas in Clinton County were struck by severe weather.” He said areas believed to have significant storm damage were Trenton, Germantown, Beckemeyer, Bartelso, Carlyle, and Centralia.

No major injuries or fatalities had been reported in the Clinton County wind damages.

Jon Carney, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in St. Louis, said Clinton County showed tornado damage on Monday, April 27, 2026. Carney and the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency also said nearby Lebanon and Mascoutah had strong wind damage.

Carney said Washington County had a tornado that went through Germantown, and that a survey team was going out there. He said another team was going out near Carlyle, where he said they thought they saw a tornado damage signature and damaged trees.

Carney said, “We are fortunate; we thought we had had more tornadoes because of the widespread storm activity.”

Carney said the National Weather Service was using a “damage survey viewer program throughout the day as survey teams post points on the map radar,” and advised the public to “search NWS Damage Viewer for latest reports on tornadoes.”

In Grafton, Mayor Mike Morrow said the city “was targeted during the storm but escaped this time with no significant damage.”

Morrow said, “We had some storm drains backed up because of the weather, but our guys got on it right away on Tuesday morning, finishing cleaning up tree limbs that had fallen. I think the brunt of it went to Clinton County.”

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