EF0 tornado in Macon County, Illinois
Tornado June 10, 2026 · Macon County, Illinois
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Macon County → Piatt County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 East Hampshire Road about 2 miles west-northwest of Argenta at 11:50pm CDT. It tracked east-southeastward damaging an outbuilding and trees before passing through Argenta and snapping numerous trees. The tornado then produced additional tree damage before crossing into Piatt County near the intersection of Newburg Road and County Line Road at 11:55pm 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 Argenta (40.0000, -88.8600).
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 1341002. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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