EF1 tornado in Crawford County, Illinois
Tornado June 21, 2026 · Crawford County, Illinois
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado began 3 miles southwest of Annapolis and tracked east-northeast toward N 825th St. It continued northeast from there, ending about 4 miles east of Annapolis north of E 2000th Ave. Damage along the path was mostly to trees and electrical transmission lines.
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 Annapolis (39.1085, -87.8583).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
11 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1351070. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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