Tornado in De Kalb County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · De Kalb County, Illinois

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Not rated

1.8 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

High resolution satellite imagery showed a tornado began near the intersection of Maple Park Road and Pritchard Road and moved northeast producing damage to crops. The tornado crossed into Kane County just south of the intersection of County Line Road and Pleasant Street. Since the only known damage from this tornado was to crops, it was assigned the EF-U (unknown) rating.

The wider storm

A derecho moved across northern Illinois during the evening of July 15th producing widespread wind damage and 30 tornadoes in northeast Illinois. One of these tornadoes crossed into northwest Indiana. At the height of the storms, 430,000 customers lost power with some power not restored for four days, on July 19th.

Began near Maple Park (41.9101, -88.6181).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1193930. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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