EF1 tornado in Shelby County, Illinois
Tornado March 14, 2025 · Shelby County, Illinois
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado began near county road 1175N, damaging a few trees and destroying a small shed. It then traveled north-northeast, destroying a large pole barn near county road 1300N and North 2900 East Road. As the tornado continued northeast, it destroyed two grain bins and snapped over a half dozen power poles. It uprooted multiple hardwood trees about a quarter mile west of county road 3000E before dissipating.
The wider storm
A potent low pressure system progressed across the Midwest on Friday, March 14, 2025. Ahead of this system, temperatures soared nearly 30 degrees above normal with high temperatures reaching the low 80s across central Illinois. Into the evening and overnight hours, a cold front swept across Illinois, with a line of severe thunderstorms developing ahead of the front. These storms produced widespread damaging straight-line winds and eight tornadoes within the NWS Lincoln County Warning Area, all of which occurred in eastern Illinois. Two of these tornadoes were rated EF-2: one in Moultrie and Piatt counties, and another in Cumberland and Coles counties. The latter of these resulted in two injuries.
Began near Strasburg (39.3800, -88.6100).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1240113. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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