EF1 Tornado — Rock Island, Illinois

2025-06-03 · near Edgington, Rock Island, Illinois

Event narrative

This tornado developed southwest of Edgington and crossed Illinois 192, doing heavy damage to three large empty grain bins and destroying an outbuilding. At the beginning of the path a well constructed farm outbuilding was destroyed. This tornado likely had winds of 105 to 110 mph at this site. Damage was done to trees all the way into Milan. This circulation was absorbed into the Coyne Center tornado.

Wider weather episode

In the late afternoon of June 3rd, a line of thunderstorms developed in northeast Missouri, and spread into far southeast Iowa and Illinois. These storms rapidly became severe. The thunderstorms quickly moved northeast across southeast Iowa, west central, and northwest Illinois between 530 PM and 8 PM CDT. This line of storms produced 8 tornadoes, along with isolated pockets of higher end wind damage from estimated winds of 80 to 100 mph. A cluster of several tornadoes moved into the the southern portions of the Quad Cities IA/IL metro area, producing EF1 damage into Moline Illinois.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1261654. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.