EF3 tornado in Woodford County, Illinois

A tornado touched down near the intersection of Banta Road and IL-26 east of the Illinois River at 4:56pm CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, damaging trees before reaching Columbia Road where several houses lost roofs and extensive tree damage occurred. It then crossed into southern Marshall County west of Snag Creek Road at 5:02pm 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.