EF1 tornado in Lawrence County, Illinois

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Lawrence County, Illinois

EF1

Rating

3.2 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Richland County → Lawrence County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This tornado crossed from Richland County into Lawrence County along North 780th Street at 5:59PM CDT. It damaged a few trees before dissipating near the intersection of North 780th Street and East 100th Avenue at 6:01PM CDT.

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 Sumner (38.6840, -87.9090).

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 EF0 Shelby County EF0 Cumberland County EFU Tazewell County EFU Christian County EFU Shelby County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1351075. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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