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EF1 tornado in Menard County, Illinois

Tornado June 10, 2026 · Menard County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
2.5 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 touched down near the intersection of Clemens Road and A Kent Street west of Athens at 10:59pm CDT. It tracked southwestward damaging numerous trees as it passed just southwest of Athens and quickly dissipated as it reached Fitschen Road on the south edge of Athens at 11:03pm 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 Athens (39.9700, -89.7600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Menard CountyEF1 Sangamon CountyEF1 Logan CountyEF1 Piatt CountyEF0 Macon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1340989. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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