It’s Official, EF-1 Tornado Ripped Right Through The Quad Cities

Editor's Note: The featured image of this article is a stock photo of a severe tornado in tornado alley.

It has been confirmed. An EF-1 tornado was confirmed to have hit the Quad Cities metro during Monday night's storms.  The only town the tornado didn't touch was Rock Island but it hit all of the other major cities.

Tornado Hits The Quad Cities

The National Weather Service of the Quad Cities has confirmed in a social media post that the EF-1 tornado began in the Quad Cities metro in Davenport. It caused damage to trees, roofs, and cars.

To be more precise, the EF-1 tornado touchdown just south of Kimberly Rd and ended in East Moline.

Below in the social media post you'll find the EF-1 tornado's path which had a max wind speed of 100 mph, its max width was 100 yards and traveled length 8 miles.

Another Derecho Hits The Quad Cities

Monday night's storm has officially been labeled as a derecho. Meteorologist Kyle Kiel has confirmed that the Storm Prediction Center has given the storm that official classification.

A derecho (pronounced similar to "deh-REY-cho" in English) is a widespread, long-lived wind storm. Derechos are associated with bands of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms variously known as bow echoes, squall lines, or quasi-linear convective systems.

Although a derecho can produce destruction similar to that of a tornado, the damage typically occurs in one direction along a relatively straight path. As a result, the term "straight-line wind damage" is sometimes used to describe derecho damage. By definition, if the swath of wind damage extends at least 400 miles, is at least 60 miles wide, includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph along most of its length, and also includes several, well-separated 75 mph or greater gusts, the event may be classified as a derecho.