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EF0 tornado in Kankakee County, Illinois

Tornado March 10, 2026 · Kankakee County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
1.8 mi
Path length
80 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 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

An anticyclonic satellite tornado occurred north of Hopkins Park. High-resolution satellite imagery depicted swirl marks across multiple fields in the general vicinity of Baseline, S 13000E, and N 13500E Roads in a counter-clockwise looping path. Based on radar imagery and swirl patterns, the tornado appeared to be a anticyclonic tornado that initially moved north, stalled, and then turned southward before ending just north of a residence on S 13000 E Road, less than 300 yards southwest of the start location. There is no known damage that was caused by the tornado.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms produced numerous tornadoes and large to giant hail as they moved across northern Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of March 10th. Included in the 9 total tornadoes in northeast Illinois that day is an EF-3 which tracked from the south side of Kankakee into Newton and Jasper counties in Indiana and devastated a portion of Aroma Park. There were two primary corridors of large hail; one extending from northern Will County into the city of Chicago, which produced hail upwards of 4.8 inches in diameter, and another from central Livingston County extending east across Kankakee County. Nearly a dozen individual reports of hail greater than 4 inches came out of this southernmost corridor, and a 6.6 inch hailstone found in Kankakee is pending as the new Illinois state record.

Began near Ahern (41.1178, -87.6203).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1318815. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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