Tornado in Fulton County, Illinois
Tornado April 4, 2023 · Fulton County, Illinois
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through McDonough County → Fulton County → Fulton County → Fulton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A storm chaser reported a brief tornado touchdown between Table Grove and Ipava at 7:09 PM CDT. The tornado quickly lifted and no damage was observed.
The wider storm
As a warm front lifted northward, a highly unstable and sheared environment developed across west-central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of April 4th. Despite the favorable parameters, thunderstorm activity was slow to initiate due to the lack of a forcing mechanism and the presence of low-level capping. As a subtle short-wave approached from the west and weakened the cap, a large supercell thunderstorm formed over southern McDonough County then tracked east-northeast across Fulton County. This storm produced a total of 4 tornadoes in Fulton County...including an EF-3 tornado that tracked across the northwest side of Lewistown. Very large hail was reported as well...with the largest stone measuring 4 inches in diameter in the town of Bernadotte.
Began near Table Grove (40.3484, -90.3773).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1093556. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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