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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Illinois

Tornado April 30, 2025 · Fayette County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

5.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$8K

Damage as recorded

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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.

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 brief, weak tornado touched down between Carlyle Lake and Pope near 6:30 PM and moved northeast. Along its track, the tornado removed several shingles from a home and caused tree damage. The tornado lifted near County Road 700 at approximately 6:38 PM. The tornado was rated EF-0 with a path length of 5.01 miles and a maximum path width of 50 yards.

The wider storm

The environment during the afternoon of April 30th was characterized by increased instability and increasing deep layer shear. This resulted in the development of discrete supercells ahead of a mesoscale convective complex moving northeast from Oklahoma. One particularly robust and long-lived supercell dropped up to 2 inch hail in Clinton County before producing 2 tornadoes in Fayette County.

Began near Carlyle Res North (38.7828, -89.1919).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1241873. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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