Thunderstorm Wind — Coles, Illinois

2025-06-27 · near Mattoon, Coles, Illinois

Event narrative

Trees were blown down onto power lines.

Wider weather episode

As a hot, humid, unstable airmass remained in place across central Illinois, a slow-moving cold front approached from the Upper Midwest. An outflow boundary from previous thunderstorms along the cold front helped initiate clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the late morning and early afternoon of Friday, June 27th. Weak wind shear promoted short-lived thunderstorms with gusty downdraft winds, with one such downdraft producing a severe wind gust and tree damage in Coles County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1261372. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.