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EF0 tornado in Lake County, Illinois

Tornado June 17, 2026 · Lake County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down in the Saddlebrook Farms subdivision near Blue Heron Circle. Numerous tree limbs were blown down and several trees were uprooted. Three homes on Preakness Lane suffered minor roof and fasica damage. The tornado ended just east of Fox Hunt Way.

The wider storm

A wake low produced high winds during the late morning and early afternoon of June 17th. Wind gusts between 45 mph and 55 mph with a few higher gusts brought down numerous tree limbs. Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain and localized flash flooding during the mid afternoon across southeast Cook County. Isolated thunderstorms moved across far northern Illinois during the late evening of June 17th and produced one brief tornado.

Began near (c81) Campbell Airport (42.3188, -88.0671).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1349948. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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