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EF0 tornado in Shelby County, Illinois

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Shelby County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The tornado touched down in a field in far southern Shelby County and moved

northeast. It hit one farmstead and did minor tree damage and

peeled parts of the metal off a barn. The tornado continued

northeast and dissipated near the intersection of E 100 North Rd

and N 2700 East Rd.

The wider storm

A remnant Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) interacted with a sheared and unstable environment to produce numerous supercells in southeast Illinois on June 21st. 13 tornadoes were documented, the strongest being two EF-2 tornadoes near Newton. Storms training over the same areas led to widespread heavy rainfall and several occurrences of flash flooding.

Began near Stewardson (39.2169, -88.6541).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

11 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Jasper County EF1 Clay County EF1 Cumberland County EF1 Crawford County EF1 Crawford County EF1 Lawrence County EF1 Richland County EF0 Cumberland County EFU Tazewell County EFU Christian County EFU Shelby County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1351058. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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