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EF0 tornado in Dodge County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 16, 2025 · Dodge County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$1K
Crop damage
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

Brief tornado that occurred in a corn field north of Beaver Dam west of Buckhorn Road. Reports from emergency management and storm chasers in the area was that the tornado lasted about 20 seconds. Satellite imagery confirmed the tornado path cutting across two corn fields while hitting one tree.

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 Beaver Dam (43.5264, -88.8104).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Iowa CountyEF0 Dane CountyEF0 Dodge County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267982. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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