NWS: 6 tornadoes touched down in Chicagoland on Sunday night, including 2 in Chicago
CHICAGO — The National Weather Service (NWS) has confirmed that six EF-0 tornadoes swept through the Chicago area on Sunday night as a round of storms pelted northeastern Illinois with intense rain and damaging winds.
In a post on X on Tuesday afternoon, the NWS provided details and track maps of the six twisters that touched down across the region, including two in the City of Chicago.
According to the NWS, the first tornado touched down in Esmond, in DeKalb County, at 8:58 p.m. and lasted four minutes.
Officials said the twister’s path measured 3.4 miles, had a max width of 100 yards, and wind speeds that reached up to 75 MPH.
The second tornado to touch down on Sunday night hit the ground in Elburn, in Kane County, at 9:33 and lasted for about three minutes.
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The NWS reported that the twister had a path that measured 1.4 miles, had a max width of 100 yards, and wind speeds that reached up to 80 MPH.
A third tornado hit the ground in St. Charles, in Kane County, at 9:44 p.m. and lasted two minutes.
The twister carved a path stretching .8 miles with a width of 200 yards. Officials say the tornado had wind speeds that reached up to 80 MPH.
Officials said widespread straight-line winds that reached up to 90 MPH also caused some damage across St. Charles and Geneva during that storm.
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Three more EF-0 tornadoes hit the ground in Cook County on Sunday night, each one after 10 p.m.
NWS officials say at 10:23 p.m., a tornado touched down in La Grange and carved a 7.4-mile path leading into Cicero that lasted 10 minutes.
The twister reached a max width of 300 yards and had wind speeds that reached up to 75 MPH.
Another tornado hit the ground near Chicago’s Midway International Airport at 10:31, lasting for 12 minutes and leaving behind a 9.6-mile path.
Officials said the tornado had a max width of 300 yards and had wind speeds that reached up to 80 MPH.
The final tornado to hit the ground on Sunday touched down in Englewood at 10:40 and lasted four minutes, carving a 3.6-mile path through the city into Jackson Park.
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According to the NWS, the twister had a max width of 300 yards and had wind speeds that reached up to 80 MPH.
An EF-0 is a twister with wind speeds ranging from 65 to 85 MPH that can cause minor damage to roofs and chimneys, but well-built structures usually remain unharmed.
EF-0 tornadoes can also topple over billboards and signs and lead to broken tree limbs.
The twisters came only a day before a second round of intense storms brought at least five more tornadoes to Chicagoland on Monday night.
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