Tornado in Logan County, Illinois
Tornado May 13, 2025 · Logan County, Illinois
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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
Video evidence showed a brief landspout tornado touched down just east of I-155 and north of US-136 about 2.5 miles east-northeast of Emden at 3:49 PM CDT. The tornado quickly dissipated...with no damage observed.
The wider storm
A surface trough extending along the I-74 corridor triggered widely scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon of May 13th. Given enhanced low-level vorticity in the vicinity of the boundary, a couple of the cells produced brief landspout tornadoes as they first developed and before precipitation began to fall. Three tornadoes were reported...including an EF-U near Emden in Logan County, and EF-U just north of Champaign in Champaign County, and an EF-0 that caused minor tree damage southwest of Toulon in Stark County.
Began near Emden (40.3101, -89.4400).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1249957. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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