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EF1 tornado in Livingston County, Illinois

Tornado December 28, 2025 · Livingston County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 with peak winds of 90 mph touched down just south of 4H Park Road on the northwest side of Pontiac and immediately moved northeast across the Motorola and Vermillion Estates Subdivisions. The tornado caused roofing and siding damage to a number of houses, apartments and manufactured homes. Two houses had large portions of roofing blown off, leave the attics exposed. The tornado crossed Route 23 and produced additional siding and fascia damage to a few manufactured homes in the Redwood mobile home park before ending north of E 1830 North Road. The tornado also damaged several trees along its path.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms moved across portions of central Illinois during the late morning of December 28th producing localized wind damage. Additional severe thunderstorms moved across parts of central Illinois during the afternoon producing additional wind damage and six tornadoes. Heavy rain also caused localized flooding.

Began near Pontiac (40.8879, -88.6560).

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 1304672. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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