The National Weather Service has rated the tornado that moved through
central Ogle County Saturday night as an EF-1, with peak winds estimated
at 100mph. The tornado touched down two miles east of Oregon around
9:13pm and was on the ground for 7 miles as it traveled to the
northeast, just before lifting southwest of Stillman Valley around
9:24pm.
The tornado traveled mostly over rural areas damaging trees and power
lines, but did damage
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| Damage to building on German Church Road in Ogle County | |
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a few outbuildings and barns. This tornado
originated from a severe storm that had produced several tornadoes
earlier in the evening across western Illinois, before moving into
Whiteside County and producing an EF-1 tornado southwest of Tampico. A
Tornado Warning was issued for Whiteside County around 8:30pm Saturday
evening, and then for Lee and Ogle counties shortly before 9pm. The
warning was then extended into Winnebago County and included the city of
Rockford, however, the stronger rotation of the storm just passed
southeast of the downtown area. Rotation continued to weaken allowing
the tornado warning to expire at 9:45pm.
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