EF0 tornado in Vermilion County, Illinois

Tornado June 29, 2024 · Vermilion County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

4.7 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Vermilion County → Warren County, Indiana; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 storm chaser monitored a landspout tornado that maintained connection to the ground for a total of 15 minutes along a track from eastern Vermilion County in Illinois to northwestern Warren County in Indiana. The landspout tornado crossed the Illinois-Indiana state line at 1723 CST. Video from the storm chaser captured minor damage to tree branches, resulting in an EF0 rating.

The wider storm

Scattered showers developed during the late afternoon and early evening along a slow-moving cold front that was draped from northern Indiana to near the I-72 corridor in central Illinois. Trained spotters reported that many of these showers exhibited weak rotation and brief funnel clouds, and one produced a landspout tornado in Vermilion County, which eventually tracked into Indiana. This tornado was on the ground for a total of 15 minutes and was rated EF0 after producing minor tree damage.

Began near Cheneyville (40.4500, -87.5700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1194912. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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