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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Illinois

Tornado April 2, 2025 · Fayette County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

22.8 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

Injury

$385K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The tornado then crossed into Fayette County and caused minor tree damage southwest of Shafter before lifting at 5:29 PM. In Fayette County the tornado had a path length of 2.98 miles with a path width of 150 yards. The tornado was rated an EF0.

The wider storm

During the afternoon and early evening of April 2, 2025, numerous strong to severe thunderstorms impacted southeast and east-central Missouri as well as south-central Illinois. Large hail, damaging wind, and a few tornadoes were observed. This activity occurred on the northwest extent of a significant tornado outbreak later that evening across the Ohio River Valley.

Began near Jimtown (38.9675, -89.2572).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1241779. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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