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EF0 tornado in St. Clair County, Illinois

Tornado May 26, 2024 · St. Clair County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

10.5 mi

Whole path

285 yd

Path width

$26K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 285 yards (0.16 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A tornado touched down 3 miles northwest of New Baden on Summerfield South Road, about a third of a mile north of I-64. In this location there was minor shingle damage to an outbuilding roof and a large tree limb was snapped off. The tornado tracked to the southeast and crossed into Clinton County, about a third of a mile south of the Illinois Route 161. The tornado was rated EF0 in Clinton County with a path length of 2.94 miles and a max path width of 285 yards.

The wider storm

During the afternoon and early evening of May 26, 2024, ten tornadoes touched down in the St. Louis metropolitan area and southwest Illinois from a mix of supercells and QLCS modes. This occurred alongside numerous reports of large hail of up to 2.5 inches in diameter and damaging winds of up to 81 mph. Thankfully, there were no reported injuries or fatalities with these thunderstorms.

Began near Summerfield (38.5510, -89.7520).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Marion County EF1 St. Louis County EF1 Clinton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181713. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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