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EF1 tornado in Rock Island County, Illinois
Tornado June 3, 2025 · Rock Island County, Illinois
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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
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.
The wider storm
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.
Began near Edgington (41.3300, -90.7800).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1261654. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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