EF0 Tornado — Stark, Illinois

2025-05-13 · near Toulon, Stark, Illinois

0.9 mi

Path length

30 yds

Path width

Event narrative

A landspout tornado touched down in a field east of Highway 78 and south of 750 North about 2 miles southwest of Toulon at 5:02 PM CDT. The tornado tracked slowly southwestward causing minor tree damage before dissipating just east of Highway 78 and south of 700 North at 5:06 PM CDT.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1249965. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.