EF1 tornado in Macon County, Illinois
Tornado June 10, 2026 · Macon County, Illinois
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Logan County → Macon County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 170 yards (0.10 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
This tornado crossed from Logan County into Macon County along 2400th Avenue between West Hampshire Road and West School Road at 11:32pm CDT. It continued southeastward, causing mostly minor tree damage before dissipating just west of the intersection of US-51 and West Wise Road about 3 miles north of Forsyth at 11:42pm 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 Heman (39.9979, -89.1441).
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 1341001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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