EF1 tornado, Waggoner to Farmersville, Illinois, March 5, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

March 5, 2022

Touchdown

10:57 PM CST (04:57 UTC)

Lifted

11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

3.9 miles (6.3 km)

Path width

40 yards (37 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$50,000

County

Montgomery County

Touchdown point

39.403, -89.664

Lift-off point

39.436, -89.605

Record number

2203052257-01

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

• Panel blown out of metal outbuilding
• Roof lifted off large farm outbuilding
• Large section of roofing blown off a farm building and lofted into nearby trees.

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

A strong cold front moved through the region, triggering showers and storms. Some of the storms became severe with damaging winds and an isolated tornado.

A brief tornado touched down on the evening of March 5th, 2022 just south of Farmersville, IL. The tornado first touched down near East 2nd Road, where it did damage to a one story residence. At this location, the tornado ripped the roof off the garage of a home and the awning off the front porch. The tornado continued northeast, doing some minor damage to a farm building just west of Interstate 55. As it crossed Interstate 55, it blew over a semi truck on the highway. The tornado continued east of Interstate 55, doing substantial damage to some large farm buildings along Morrisonville Avenue and East 4th Road. From there, the tornado began to weaken as it struck a newly constructed hog farm along East 5th Road, before quickly lifting near Macoupin Creek. Overall, the tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 3.89 miles and a max path width of 40 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.

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

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

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 00:43 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 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.

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:58 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.

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

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

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in IllinoisEvery tornado in Illinois since 1950Warnings in force in Illinois nowThe forecast where you are

18 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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