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EF1 tornado in Clinton County, Illinois

Tornado May 26, 2024 · Clinton County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
18.5 mi
Whole path
325 yd
Path width
$123K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 325 yards (0.18 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

A tornado touched down north of Carlyle and tracked eastward significantly damaging a garage and shed, removing portions of a roof on a home, and breaking large branches off of trees. This tornado continued on the east side of the Carlyle Lake, where there were reports and photos of power lines down, multiple trees down, at least partial removal of a house's roof, a barn destroyed, and the majority of another barn's roof removed. The tornado was rated EF1 in Clinton County with a path length of 17.64 miles and a max path width of 325 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.

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 Frogtown (38.6650, -89.4600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181720. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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