EF1 tornado in Champaign County, Illinois

A tornado touched down north of the intersection of West Bloomington Road and North Duncan Road at 7:20pm CDT. The tornado initially damaged solar panels, fencing, and a few trees before it tracked eastward across I-74. It damaged the roof of a business and toppled a small metal tower as it reached Mattis Avenue, then caused roof damage to a warehouse and snapped several tree branches as it continued eastward. The tornado damaged an outbuilding and additional trees along East Oaks Road North, then crossed US-45 northeast of Frasca Field. A few roofs were damaged near US-45 with more tree branches snapped further east before the tornado dissipated just west of the intersection of County Road 1850 and County Road 1900 at 7:30pm CDT.

A strong storm system interacted with a highly unstable and sheared environment to produce a significant severe weather outbreak across central Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 11th. Scattered supercell thunderstorms initially developed west of the I-55 corridor along a pre-frontal trough during the afternoon. One of these storms produced an EF-3 tornado that impacted portions of Woodford and Marshall counties and dropped tennis ball-sized hail (2.50 diameter). Additional cells rapidly developed further west across southeastern Iowa into northern Missouri ahead of an advancing cold front. These storms congealed into a line and pushed eastward into central Illinois during the evening. Widespread damaging wind gusts of 60-70mph occurred with the line along and north of the I-72 corridor. After storm surveys were completed, it was discovered an additional 8 tornadoes were embedded within the line...creating pockets of enhanced damage.