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EF0 tornado in Cumberland County, Illinois

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Cumberland County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

5.9 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 began about 1 mile southeast of Bradbury near County

Road 1350. It tracked northeast, damaging several trees and a

couple of farm outbuildings. It turned east-northeastward and

tracked just south of Cottonwood, causing more tree damage before

lifting west of Diona near the Coles County line.

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 Bradbury (39.3098, -88.2259).

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 Shelby County EFU Tazewell County EFU Christian County EFU Shelby County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1351066. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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