EF2 tornado in Edgar County, Illinois

A tornado touched down 3 miles north of Chrisman at 10:41 PM CST. The greatest damage was concentrated along County Road 2650 North just east of US-150. A farmstead at this location had several grain bins damaged and a machine shed lost large portions of its roof. The tornado crossed into southeastern Vermilion County at 10:43 PM CST.

A deepening area of low pressure tracked from near Kansas City during the afternoon of December 10th to southern Lake Michigan by the pre-dawn hours of December 11th. An unseasonably warm and moist airmass surged northward ahead of the system, resulting in high temperatures reaching the lower to middle 60s across central Illinois. As the low and an associated vigorous short-wave trough interacted with the moderately unstable and highly sheared environment, several clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening of the 10th. Numerous rotating cells were observed, with a total of 6 tornadoes touching down across central Illinois. 5 of the tornadoes were rated EF-2, including one that injured a person just north of Herrick in Shelby County.