EF1 tornado in Champaign County, Illinois

A tornado touched down along County Road 2000 East just south of the Champaign-Ford County line about 2 miles east-northeast of Ludlow at 7:26pm CDT. The tornado tracked east-northeastward, peeling part of the roof off an outbuilding and damaging some solar panels before crossing into the National Weather Service Chicago County Warning Area (CWA) in southeastern Ford County about one quarter mile west of Ford County North 2800 East Road at 7:28pm 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.