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EF1 tornado in Tazewell County, Illinois

Tornado June 15, 2019 · Tazewell County, Illinois

EF1

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A tornado touched down 2.1 miles southwest of South Pekin at 10:19 PM CDT. The tornado tracked east-southeast...destroying a shed, blowing over several 18 to 24-inch diameter trees, and knocking over power poles north of Christmas Tree Road near Highway 29 before dissipating about 2.4 miles southeast of South Pekin at 10:22 PM CDT.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms developed across eastern Iowa during the early evening of June 15th, then tracked southeastward along an advancing warm front into central Illinois during the late evening of the 15th into the early morning hours of the 16th. Two tornadoes touched down along the leading edge of the storms...one just southwest of South Pekin in Tazewell County and another near Bellflower in McLean County. Minor damage was reported with both tornadoes. Elsewhere around the area, 50-60 mph wind gusts caused scattered damage.

Began near Pekin Muni Arpt (40.4648, -89.6351).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 McLean County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 827240. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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