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NWS: Sunday's tornado count adjusted to 15, a record for June

Staff from the National Weather Service in Paducah have adjusted and finalized their catalog of storm damage across southern Illinois and Indiana on Sunday.

Meteorologists have determined that 15 tornadoes were spawned in Sunday's storms between 3:30 pm til midnight from Mt. Vernon to Owensboro. This broke the record for most tornadoes in the month of June in the forecast area, previously 13 set in 2019. 

A complex of thunderstorms moved east along I-70 from St Louis into Indiana and laid out a boundary (initially just north of I-64) for storms to form along by late afternoon, which allowed supercells to develop through the evening as the boundary very slowly sank southward. A total of 15 tornadoes have been confirmed across our area, confined to the forecast area's northern two tiers of counties in southern Illinois and southwest Indiana.

The strongest was an EF-3 tornado near Mt. Vernon with peak winds of 140 miles per hour. It traveled 14 miles and destroyed three homes. There were two fatalities and several injured.

An EF-2 intensity tornado was on the ground north of Evansville for more than 11 miles.

Otherwise, the updated survey shows there were 8 tornadoes rated at an EF1, 3 at an EF0, and 1 at and EFU. The NWS explains that a tornado that fails to meet the damage indicators on the EF-Scale is rated at an EFU, or EF Unknown.

Meteorologists have compiled their data, now available on their NWS web page .

In the meantime, more local details of individual tornadoes are at WFCN . 


(Photo NWS Paducah, contributed by Lori Workman)
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