Christian County Emergency Management Director Mike Crews said about 30 people were injured in the storm. Taylorville Memorial Hospital spokesman Michael Leathers told the State Journal Register 21 people were treated there for storm-related injuries. Three with more serious injuries were transferred to Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.
The city of Taylorville was last struck by a tornado - rated F1 - on April 2, 2006, according to NWS-Lincoln. Christian County's strongest tornado in modern records dating to 1950 was an F3 tornado in the county's far western edge on March 20, 1976, according to NOAA's storm events database.
According to NWS-Lincoln, a supercell tracking from the far east St. Louis metro area to just east of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, may have been responsible for multiple tornadoes, including Taylorville, a distance of roughly 140 miles.
https://www.wunderground.com/news/storms/tornado/news/2018-12-02-illinois-tornadoes-taylorville-1dec18
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