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EF1 tornado in Iowa County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 16, 2025 · Iowa County, Wisconsin

EF1
Rating
6.8 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$85K
Damage as recorded
$50K
Crop damage
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An EF-1 rated tornado developed near the Farm and Fleet in Dodgeville, first moving northeast through a corn field. The tornado then continued to the northeast, impacting numerous trees and one outbuilding. The strongest damage occurred off of County Road ZZ, where numerous large, healthy hardwood trees were uprooted. The tornado ended near Knobs Road, just west of County Road H.

The wider storm

Two lines of severe thunderstorms tracked across southern Wisconsin from early afternoon through the early evening hours. Numerous supercell thunderstorms developed, producing a number of wall and funnel clouds as well as a few tornadoes. A secondary line of storms came through which caused sporadic wind damage. The main damage was in Iowa county from the strongest tornado which occurred near and northeast of Dodgeville.

Began near Dodgeville (42.9819, -90.1048).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267968. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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