EF1 tornado in Menard County, Illinois
Tornado June 10, 2026 · Menard County, Illinois
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A tornado touched down along Reimer Avenue about 3 miles northeast of Tallula at 10:49pm CDT. It damaged a grain bin and several trees at a farmstead on Reimer Avenue, then continued east-northeastward damaging numerous trees in Lincoln's New Salem State Park and removing shingles from a home on State Park Road. The tornado crossed IL-97 and damaged additional trees in a neighborhood just south of Athens Blacktop Road before lifting 1 mile southwest of Tice at 10:55pm CDT.
The wider storm
A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front during the evening of June 10th. Scattered wind damage was observed along and north of the I-72 corridor, with the most concentrated damage focusing across portions of Menard, Logan, Sangamon, and Macon counties where the cells interacted with an existing outflow boundary from earlier storms. Six tornadoes touched down within this corridor, including an EF-1 tornado that tracked across Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport and the north side of Springfield.
Began near Tallula (39.9700, -89.9000).
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 1340988. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
Tornadoes near your address
See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.
We couldn’t get your location. Check that location access is allowed for this site, or type an address.