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EF1 tornado in Clinton County, Illinois

Tornado April 27, 2026 · Clinton County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
11.7 mi
Path length
350 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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 developed just southwest of Germantown where it damaged part of the roof of an outbuilding. In Germantown, the tornado produced mostly tree damage. However, it did destroy the roof of one manufactured home and it completely destroyed another. From there, it damaged mostly trees until it reached just south of Beckemeyer. Here, the tornado destroyed one outbuilding and flipped another. The tornado produced more tree damage before dissipating just south of Carlyle.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms passed through the region for nearly the entirety of April 27th. The afternoon round was expected to be the most volatile, with an environment primed for high-end severe weather reflected by an areawide SPC Moderate Risk. What culminated was widespread large hail, wind damage, and three tornadoes in Illinois.

Began near Germantown (38.5418, -89.5728).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 St. Clair CountyEF0 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1334002. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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