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EF0 tornado in Cook County, Illinois

Tornado June 10, 2026 · Cook County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

175 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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 with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down just east of Interstate 294 and snapped and uprooted trees between W 120th Pl and W 121st Street. Utility poles and power lines were also blown down. The tornado continued east crossing Route 50 and ended between railroad tracks and Kostner Avenue.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms that would eventually become a derecho, produced widespread wind damage across much of northeast Illinois during the afternoon of June 10th. Two brief tornadoes also occurred.

Began near Crestwood (41.6717, -87.7589).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Kane County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1338899. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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