EF1 tornado in McLean County, Illinois

Tornado June 13, 2024 · McLean County, Illinois

EF1

Rating

8.5 mi

Whole path

1,300 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,300 yards (0.74 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 about 2 miles south of Anchor at 8:46 PM CDT. The tornado tracked southeastward, severely damaging or destroying several farm buildings. It then crossed into the National Weather Service Chicago County Warning Area (CWA) into western Ford County just north of East 1500 North Road at 8:50 PM CDT.

The wider storm

A cold front triggered clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms across north-central Illinois during the evening of June 13th into the pre-dawn hours of June 14th. Most of the activity was focused along and north of a Beardstown to Champaign line. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down thanks to 60-70 mph wind gusts, while a few reports of hail as large as quarters were also received. The most significant wind damage occurred across northeastern McLean County from Chenoa and Lexington southeastward through Cropsey and Anchor where a damage survey team determined widespread wind gusts of 80-110 mph as well as 5 tornado touchdowns. A total of 33 high-tension electrical transmission towers were severely damaged as a result of the powerful winds across this area.

Began near Anchor (40.5395, -88.5256).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 McLean County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1186207. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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