EF1 tornado, Chestervale to Newburg, Illinois, June 10, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

June 10, 2026

Touchdown

11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)

Lifted

11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)

On the ground

23 minutes

Path length

19.8 miles (31.8 km)

Path width

170 yards (155 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Logan and Macon counties

Touchdown point

40.051, -89.308

Lift-off point

39.964, -88.962

Highest wind the damage implies

90 mph

Surveyed by

NWS ILX

The office's name for it

Mount Pulaski-Forsyth Tornado

Survey last edited

June 16, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

The tornado touched down about 3 miles northwest of Mount Pulaski

where it did some minor tree damage. The tornado intensified as it

progressed east along 900 St, where it did extensive tree damage for

about a half mile, damaging numerous trees. The tornado angled

southeast and crossed Hwy 54 producing more tree damage. The tornado

produced mainly tree damage for the remainder of its time on the

ground, dissipating about 3 miles north of Forsyth.

Written by NWS ILX in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

56 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 88 mph.

• Large branches ripped from trees and blown across road
• Branches snapped looking east from dead end drive
• Several trees with damage along the tree line
• Numerous trees damaged in this line of woods

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

A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front during the evening of June 10th. Scattered wind damage was observed along and north of the I-72 corridor, with the most concentrated damage focusing across portions of Menard, Logan, Sangamon, and Macon counties where the cells interacted with an existing outflow boundary from earlier storms. Six tornadoes touched down within this corridor, including an EF-1 tornado that tracked across Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport and the north side of Springfield.

A tornado touched down north of the junction of 900th Street and 878th Street about 3 miles northwest of Mount Pulaski at 11:19pm CDT. The tornado caused extensive tree damage as it tracked eastward along 900th Street before curving to the southeast and causing additional tree damage as it crossed IL-54. It then tracked into northwestern Macon County along 2400th Avenue between West Hampshire Road and West School Road at 11:32pm CDT.

This tornado crossed from Logan County into Macon County along 2400th Avenue between West Hampshire Road and West School Road at 11:32pm CDT. It continued southeastward, causing mostly minor tree damage before dissipating just west of the intersection of US-51 and West Wise Road about 3 miles north of Forsyth at 11:42pm CDT.

A tornado touched down along East Hampshire Road about 2 miles west-northwest of Argenta at 11:50pm CDT. It tracked east-southeastward damaging an outbuilding and trees before passing through Argenta and snapping numerous trees. The tornado then produced additional tree damage before crossing into Piatt County near the intersection of Newburg Road and County Line Road at 11:55pm CDT.

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

21 minutes of warning. NWS ILX issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:58 UTC, 21 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:34 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 04:05 UTC and running to 05:16 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 01:19 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), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:22 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 2026 tornado in IllinoisEvery tornado in Illinois since 1950Warnings in force in Illinois nowThe forecast where you are

23 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.