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EF0 tornado in Mason County, Illinois

Tornado September 20, 2025 · Mason County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

A tornado touched down in a field 2 miles east-northeast of Mason City at 3:09 PM CDT. It tracked slowly southeastward through fields causing minor tree damage before crossing Highway 10 and dissipating 2 miles west of New Holland at 3:15 PM CDT.

The wider storm

An upper-level disturbance interacting with a nearly stationary frontal boundary triggered clusters of strong thunderstorms across central Illinois during the afternoon of September 20th. A storm cell intersecting an outflow boundary over Mason County resulted in an EF-0 tornado east of Mason City. Meanwhile other storms produced hail as large as quarters and isolated minor wind damage.

Began near Luther (40.2146, -89.6584).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1289095. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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