EF1 tornado, Wayne County, Illinois, June 21, 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 21, 2026

Touchdown

7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)

Lifted

7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

3.8 miles (6.1 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Wayne County

Touchdown point

38.444, -88.364

Lift-off point

38.446, -88.294

Highest wind the damage implies

90 mph

Surveyed by

NWS PAH

The office's name for it

Jeffersonville, IL

Survey last edited

June 26, 2026

Record number

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

An EF-1 tornado touched down 2 miles east of Jeffersonville and continued east along County Road 1320N flattening corn on the north side of the road. At one residence there was a carport lifted up over a barn. Another house suffered damage from a tree falling on it. Tree damage primarily consisted of large branches broken but there were a couple uprooted. The tornado lifted 6 miles east of Jeffersonville. Thank you to the Wayne County EMA for assistance with this survey.

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

22 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS PAH, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 95 mph.

• Carport lifted up over this barn toward the front side of the house
• Tree landed on house. Drone footage courtesy of Wayne Co EMA.
• Evidence of flattened corn on the north side of 1320
• Shipping container moved and then flipped. Another shed nearby got slid off its foundation and another old barn was also heavily damaged along with several large limbs. Overhead photo courtesy of Wayne County EMA

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

17 minutes of warning. NWS PAH issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:54 UTC, 17 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:45 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:29 UTC and running to 03:00 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 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), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:11 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

43 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.