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EF1 tornado, Passport to Olney Noble Arpt, Illinois, June 17, 2022

Name: EF1 tornado, Passport to Olney Noble Arpt, Illinois, June 17, 2022
Start: 2022-06-17T11:36:00.000Z
End: 2022-06-17T11:44:00.000Z
Location: Passport to Olney Noble Arpt, Illinois

From Passport to Olney Noble Arpt, this EF1 tornado ran 3.3 miles across Richland County on June 17, 2022, touching down at 6:36 AM CDT and reaching 60 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: EF1
Date: June 17, 2022
Touchdown: 6:36 AM CDT (11:36 UTC)
Lifted: 6:44 AM CDT (11:44 UTC)
On the ground: 8 minutes
Path length: 3.3 miles (5.3 km)
Path width: 60 yards (55 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Richland County
Touchdown point: 38.775, -88.246
Lift-off point: 38.760, -88.170
Record number: 2206170536-01

The damage survey

5 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

Multiple power poles replaced due to power lines down.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

A strong nocturnal low-level jet interacting with a nearly stationary frontal boundary triggered a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over northern Missouri during the pre-dawn hours of June 17th. The large thunderstorm cluster tracked east-southeastward along the boundary, producing significant wind damage and flash flooding. The storms were focused along and southeast of a Rushville...to Springfield...to Shelbyville...to Robinson line. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. In addition, very heavy rainfall of 3 to 5 inches along and south of a Jacksonville to Effingham line created pockets of flash flooding.

A tornado touched down on Deer Farm Lane near North Passport Road 1 mile south-southeast of Passport at 6:36 AM CDT. The tornado knocked down multiple power poles, then tracked east-southeastward causing periodic tree damage and damage to the roofing of a barn. The tornado dissipated near the intersection of County Road 1300 North and North Higgin Switch Road about 4.5 miles northwest of Olney at 6:44 AM CDT.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 10:33 UTC and running to 13:00 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
10:33 UTC	13:00 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	ILX
11:17 UTC	11:45 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX
11:44 UTC	12:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:40 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Lincoln, IL (KILX), 00:00Z

11.6 hours before the tornado, 157 km from the path. June 17, 2022.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2615 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9
0-3 km lapse rate: 7.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Lincoln, IL (KILX), 12:00Z

0.4 hours after it, 157 km from the path. June 17, 2022.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -313 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 11:36 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
11:00 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Altamont	Effingham, IL	MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ON RESIDENCES.
11:00 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Altamont	Effingham, IL	LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN ALONG WITH SEVERAL LARGE BRANCHES THROUGHOUT ALTAMONT. POWERLINES DOWN WITH POWER OUTAGES THIS MORNING AND SOME DAMAGE TO PARKED VEHICLES. GARAGE DOOR BUCKLED IN AND DAMAGE TO HOUSE SIDING. WORST W
11:10 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Mason	Effingham, IL	TREE LIMBS DOWN.
11:22 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	3 W Louisville	Clay, IL	DAMAGE TO A SHED FROM STRONG WINDS.
11:23 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Louisville	Clay, IL	MAJOR DAMAGE TO BLAIR'S PROCESSING PLANT BUILDING.
11:23 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Louisville	Clay, IL	MAJOR DAMAGE TO BLAIRS PROCESSING PLANT BUILDING.
11:23 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	3 N Xenia	Clay, IL	POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN ON XENIA AND IOLA ROAD.
11:25 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Louisville	Clay, IL	DAMAGE TO OLD SHERIFF'S OFFICE SQUARE IN LOUISVILLE.
11:25 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Louisville	Clay, IL	DAMAGE TO OLD SHERIFFS OFFICE SQUARE IN LOUISVILLE.
11:25 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Louisville	Clay, IL	SEVERE ROOF DAMAGE TO ZINKS BUILDING CENTER ON HIGHWAY 45.
11:25 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 2.77	Effingham	Effingham, IL	RAINFALL SINCE 5 AM. SWOP REPORT.
11:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Clay City	Clay, IL	SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN JUST NORTH OF CLAY CITY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN. SEVERAL ROADS BLOCKED BY TREES. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
11:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Effingham	Effingham, IL	TREE BLOWN DOWN ON TECHNOLOGY DRIVE.
11:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Flora	Clay, IL	TREE BLOWN DOWN, WAS HALF DEAD. TIME APPROXIMATE.
11:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Teutopolis	Effingham, IL	LARGE MAPLE TREE BRANCH BLOWN DOWN.
11:32 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 N Clay City	Clay, IL	SEMI TRUCK BLOWN OVER ON DETERICH BLACKTOP COUNTY ROAD 1860 E.
11:34 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Se Flora	Clay, IL	AROUND 5 POWER POLES AND LINES DOWN ACROSS US HIGHWAY 45 IN FLORA.
11:35 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Flora	Clay, IL	POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN ON ROUTE 45 NEAR THE CLAY AND WAYNE COUNTY LINE. CORN FLATTENED FROM WIND DRIVEN HEAVY RAINS.
11:35 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	6 N Cisne	Wayne, IL	LATE REPORT: 5 TO 6 POWER POLES DOWN ON US HWY 45 NEAR THE WAYNE/CLAY COUNTY BORDER. CISNE WAS OUT OF POWER FOR 15 HOURS DUE TO THESE POLES BEING DOWN.
11:36 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	7 Se Clay City	Richland, IL	POWER POLES AND LINES BLOWN DOWN.
11:36 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Louisville	Clay, IL	TREES DOWN. REPORT RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
11:38 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	4 S Wakefield	Richland, IL	LARGE BRANCHES AND POWER LINES DOWN ON EAST DEER FARM LANE.
11:41 UTC	TSTM WND GST 65	2 W Johnsonville	Wayne, IL	POWER LINES AND TREES ARE DOWN.
11:44 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Johnsonville	Wayne, IL	1 INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN, SHINGLES BLOWN OFF HOME.
11:45 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	7 Ene Sailor Springs	Richland, IL	SOME DAMAGE TO GRAIN BINS FROM HIGH WINDS.
11:50 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	5 Sse Noble	Richland, IL	REPORT FROM MPING: 1-INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN AND/OR SHINGLES BLOWN OFF.
11:50 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 3.5	Teutopolis	Effingham, IL	DITCHES OVERFLOWING. REPORT RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA.
11:50 UTC	TSTM WND GST 48	3 W Fairfield	Wayne, IL	AWOS STATION KFWC FAIRFIELD IL.
11:55 UTC	TSTM WND GST 58	Olney Noble Airport	Richland, IL
12:00 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	4 Nnw Olney Noble Airpo	Richland, IL	FROM FACEBOOK. POWER LINES AND LARGE BRANCHES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
12:00 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 3.08	Effingham County Airpor	Effingham, IL	RAINFALL SINCE 5 AM.
12:00 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 3.21	2 Wnw Effingham	Effingham, IL
12:00 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Albion	Edwards, IL	LOTS OF TREE DAMAGE. TREE FELL ON HOME.
12:10 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	Effingham	Effingham, IL	US 40 AND US 45 COVERED IN WATER. REPORT RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA.
12:13 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Bridgeport	Lawrence, IL	A FEW TREES DOWN.
12:15 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Sw Bridgeport	Lawrence, IL	HOLLOW OAK TREE BLEW DOWN ON POWER LINES CAUSING POWER OUTAGE.
12:15 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	Effingham	Effingham, IL	OBSERVER REPORTS FAYETTE AVE UNDERPASS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. SWOP REPORT.
12:15 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Mount Carmel	Wabash, IL	SEVERAL POWER LINES AND AT LEAST ONE TREE ON A HOUSE. NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN. DOWNED POWER LINE BLOCKING IL RT 1 AND 15.
12:18 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	3 N Cisne	Wayne, IL	1 INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN, SHINGLES BLOWN OFF HOME.
12:20 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	1 Nw Teutopolis	Effingham, IL	FLOODING ON 1700TH ROAD, BOTH BRIDGES UNDERWATER. REPORT RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 17, 2022

1 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	8:06 PM EDT	EF0	Robeson, NC	0.7	30

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.