EF2 tornado, Jewett to Shephardsville, Illinois, April 2, 2025

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 mph

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

3. EF2111 to 135 mphthis tornado

   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

EF2

Date

April 2, 2025

Touchdown

6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)

Lifted

7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)

On the ground

49 minutes

Path length

48.9 miles (78.7 km)

Path width

1,200 yards (1097 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$200,000

Counties

Cumberland, Clark, Edgar and Vigo counties

Touchdown point

39.234, -88.247

Lift-off point

39.581, -87.456

Record number

2504021733-03

140 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILX and NWS IND, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 115 mph.

• Porch damaged. Chicken coop on its side. Out building destroyed. From Nathan Ward...spotter.
• two pine trees snapped. Roughly 2 ESE of Toledo.
• Fabric outside of hoop outbuilding ripped off
• Roof material thrown quarter mile NE across field

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

An area of low pressure tracked from southeastern Nebraska during the morning of April 2nd to western Wisconsin by evening, triggering two rounds of convection across central Illinois.||Round 1 occurred during the morning when a line of thunderstorms along the trailing cold front pushed into the Illinois River Valley. These storms were generally sub-severe, but one cell produced a downburst with estimated winds in excess of 70 mph across parts of Logan County, downing a few trees, tearing the roof off a business, and flipping 3 semis in and near Lincoln.||Round 2 materialized by early afternoon as storms re-developed along an outflow boundary from the morning convection along the I-55 corridor. These storms tapped into a moderately unstable and highly sheared environment and quickly became severe. Six tornadoes touched down...including a long-track EF-2 tornado that remained on the ground for nearly 45 miles and impacted parts of Cumberland, Clark, and Edgar counties before crossing into Vigo County, Indiana. Numerous reports of wind damage and large hail were received as the storms congealed into a line and pushed eastward across I-57 by early evening. The largest reported hail stones were the size of eggs (2 in diameter) in Springfield in Sangamon County and just northwest of Latham in southern Logan County.

A strong low pressure system generated a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that started in Illinois and moved across central Indiana. Multiple severe storms were embedded within the line and some of these produced tornadoes. Eleven tornadoes impacted central Indiana, ten of which occurred along an overall west-southwest to east-northeast area from north of Terre Haute to north of Muncie. Four of these events, from Hendricks County to Delaware County, were secondary tornadoes that tracked parallel to longer duration tornadoes. Three tornadoes combined to impact western and northern portions of the Indianapolis Metro area, including an EF2 in Hendricks County that caused the episode's only injury. In addition to the tornadoes widespread wind damage occurred with gusts over 80+ mph reported.

A tornado touched down southwest of the intersection of County Road 1225 East and County Road 450 North about 2.5 miles south of Toledo at 6:33 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, knocking down trees and damaging outbuildings before increasing in intensity and snapping nearly two dozen power poles and destroying an outbuilding south and east of Union Center. It then crossed into Clark County south of the intersection of County Road 000 East and County Road 1530 North at 6:48 PM CDT.

This tornado crossed from Cumberland County into Clark County south of the intersection of County Road 000 East and County Road 1530 North at 6:48 PM CDT. It continued northeastward, damaging numerous trees and outbuildings and causing minor roof and siding damage in the community of Cleone and just north of Clarksville before passing into Edgar County just west of Flemington Creek at 7:02 PM CDT.

A tornado touched down in a field about 3 miles south of Marshall just south of I-70 at 7:02 PM CDT. The tornado crossed I-70 where it blew over 2 semi trucks, then continued northeastward and damaged 8 large buildings and several trees at a hog farm along East 1950th Road. It then snapped several trees and tree branches and caused minor damage to outbuildings before crossing into Edgar County near the intersection of North Fern Lake Road and East 2250th Road at 7:08 PM CDT.

This tornado crossed from Clark County into Edgar County just west of Flemington Creek at 7:02 PM CDT. It then continued northeastward, snapping trees and tree branches and doing minor damage to outbuildings before crossing into the National Weather Service Indianapolis County Warning Area in Vigo County, Indiana about 1 mile north of Sandford at 7:14 PM CDT.

This tornado crossed from Clark County into Edgar County near the intersection of North Fern Lake Road and East 2250th Road at 7:08 PM CDT where it tore off the front section of an outbuilding. It then continued northeastward damaging trees and power lines before dissipating in an open field northeast of North 2250th Street and East 175th Road at 7:10 PM CDT.

This first tornado to impact central Indiana began in Illinois where it reached EF2 intensity and tracked nearly 45 miles before entering Vigo County, Indiana for the final portion of its track. The circulation tracked east-northeast to New Goshen Avenue, then curled right to an easterly direction taking it into the center of the New Goshen community where the greatest damage occurred. Damage along the east-northeasterly track consistent with EF0 intensity, to the northwest of the West New Goshen community, included downed trees, minor structure and/or roof damage and an collapsed old barn. Damage in New Goshen consistent with high end EF1 intensity included major damage to a large garage with full walls picked up and thrown over other structures, and near-total roof loss to many other structures in the community. The tornado weakened to EF0 intensity as it crossed US Highway 150 and lifted shortly after. The peak wind gusts during this final Indiana segment were 110 mph.

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

9 minutes of warning. NWS ILX issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:24 UTC, 9 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 23:55 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 20:18 UTC and running to 00:46 UTC.

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 Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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 Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:32 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 2025 tornado in IllinoisEvery tornado in Illinois since 1950Warnings in force in Illinois nowThe forecast where you are

87 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

All 88 of them

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.