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EF1 tornado in Logan County, Illinois

Tornado April 18, 2024 · Logan County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
5.9 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width
1
Injury

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Logan County → Logan County → Macon County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado touched down just east of the intersection of 2300th Avenue and 200th Street, about 1.5 miles south-southeast of Latham in Logan County, where it produced damage to the roof of an outbuilding. The tornado continued east, crossing into Macon County at the intersection of 2400th Avenue and Heman Street, about two miles southeast of Latham. The tornado eventually dissipated 0.9 miles west of Heman. Softwood and hardwood trees were uprooted along 2400th Avenue, which is the county line between Logan and Macon counties.

The wider storm

A slow moving frontal system aided the development of supercell thunderstorms by mid-afternoon, which eventually grew upscale into a line segment as they progressed across central and southeastern Illinois during the evening. A total of four tornadoes occurred across Logan and Macon counties in central Illinois. One injury occurred in Logan County when a semi-truck was blown over by one of the tornadoes. In addition to the tornadoes, scattered wind damage also occurred.

Began near Latham (39.9500, -89.1600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1166921. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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