--- description: There were no significant injuries despite winds over 110 miles per hour title: Watch a Massive Tornado Rip Through Illinois image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf2f76b907366817/69885b73196cf40966037287/tornado-illinois.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Massive Tornado Rip Through Illinois by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 17, 2015 6:42 PM CUT  Multiple grain bins lie toppled over each other on July 17, 2015 in Cameron, Ill., the morning after a tornado swept through the city. Multiple grain bins lie toppled over each other on July 17, 2015 in Cameron, Ill., the morning after a tornado swept through the city.Steve Davis—AP by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 17, 2015 6:42 PM CUT A huge twister in northwest Illinois touched down around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, bringing with it winds of more than 110 m.p.h. and multiple vortexes. Despite the size and force of the tornado, the Illinois state police reported [no deaths](http://www.weather.com/news/news/cameron-illinois-tornado-severe-damage-impacts "undefined") or serious injuries. The small unincorporated community of Cameron, home to approximately 600 residents, bore the brunt of the storm with some 50 homes sustaining damage. A nearby town also lost electricity and Governor Bruce Rauner [activated](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/weather/illinois-storm-emergency/ "undefined") an emergency operations center in Springfield to deal with the fallout from the tornado. See footage of the storm [here](https://www.facebook.com/60216628095/posts/10153215134688096 "undefined"): ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/"},"headline":"Watch a Massive Tornado Rip Through Illinois","datePublished":"2015-07-17T18:42:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:21:57.760Z","description":"There were no significant injuries","url":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/","keywords":["weather","Tornadoes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf2f76b907366817/69885b73196cf40966037287/tornado-illinois.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf2f76b907366817/69885b73196cf40966037287/tornado-illinois.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Illinois Severe Weather","caption":"Illinois Severe Weather","creditText":"Steve Davis—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/","name":"Watch a Massive Tornado Rip Through Illinois"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch: A Timelapse of Climate Change","description":"Climate Change","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ywHiuC83/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-05-09T17:46:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ywHiuC83.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/","duration":"PT48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3963073/illinois-tornado/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```