Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Hurricane Hitting Springfield Illinois On July 20, 2025 -- Footage Shows 2024 Typhoon Hitting China

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  • by: Dean Miller
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Hurricane Hitting Springfield Illinois On July 20, 2025 -- Footage Shows 2024 Typhoon Hitting China 2024 In China

Does a viral video show a "Massive Tornado Hits Springfield Illinois Today July 20, 2025"? No, that's not true. That video clip has been posted online since at least July 2024. It showed news coverage of Typhoon Yagi striking China's island province of Hainan.

The mislabelled video was posted July 20, 2025 to TikTok (archived here) on the @disaster.world1 account, titled "Massive Tornado Hits Springfield Illinois Today". The on-screen caption read:

Massive Tornado Hits Springfield Illinois Today July 20, 2025

This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:

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(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by tiktok.com/@disaster.world1.)

Lead Stories found the video attached to a July 2024 New York Post news report (archived here) about Typhoon Yagi hitting China's southernmost province, where it killed four people.

That places the scene in the video 12 months and at least 8,000 miles away from Springfield in July of 2025.

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Dean Miller

Lead Stories Managing Editor Dean Miller has edited daily and weekly newspapers, worked as a reporter for more than a decade and is co-author of two non-fiction books. After a Harvard Nieman Fellowship, he served as Director of Stony Brook University's Center for News Literacy for six years, then as Senior Vice President/Content at Connecticut Public Broadcasting. Most recently, he wrote the twice-weekly "Save the Free Press" column for The Seattle Times. 

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