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EF0 tornado in Rock Island County, Illinois

Tornado April 20, 2025 · Rock Island County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$1K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 85 mph and a maximum width of 50 yards resulted in several trees being snapped and uprooted throughout the Cordova Cemetery, with many large branches snapped as well. As the tornado continued north, more damage to large tree branches was noted, along with an outdoor swing set and large farm irrigator damaged.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms lifted north northeastward across northwest Illinois, mainly south of Interstate 80, on the evening of April 20th. This brought numerous tornadoes to the area as well as straight-line wind damage. Fourteen tornadoes occurred in northwest Illinois. 7 of them were EF-1, 5 EF-0, and 1 EF-U. The longest track tornado of the event was on the ground for 16 miles and traveled from Victoria in Knox County through Galva before lifting west of Kewanee in Henry County.

Began near Cordova (41.6800, -90.3100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

11 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 McDonough CountyEF1 McDonough CountyEF1 Henry CountyEF1 Henry CountyEF1 Bureau CountyEF1 Henry CountyEF0 Warren CountyEF0 Henry CountyEF0 Henry CountyEF0 Mercer CountyEFU Henry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1251996. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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