EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Illinois

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Fayette County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

1.2 mi

Whole path

10 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fayette County → Marion County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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 chaser photo taken around 3:50 on hwy 51 shows a tornado directly in front (south) of a tree line along the Fayette/Marion county line. Just to the west of the tornado in that image, an NWS storm survey found minor (EF-0) damage along the county line.

The wider storm

A convective complex moved through the region during the day on June 21st. Though it remained sub-severe for most of its life, the complex did intensify in south-central Illinois where it produced tornadoes, wind damage, and flash flooding.

Began near Shobonier (38.8257, -89.0947).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marion County EF0 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1334175. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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