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F2 tornado in Washburn County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 18, 2001 · Washburn County, Wisconsin

Rating

34.0 mi

Whole path

880 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$10.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Burnett County → Washburn County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado, which began near Grantsburg in Burnett County, entered Washburn County at 851 pm local daylight time, 7 miles west of Spooner, and traveled to a point about 3 miles west of Spooner, dissipating around 900 pm. The tornado was in the dissipating stage as it entered Washburn County, but the tree and structural damage that was reported was still classified as F-2. Several homes had windows blown in, roofs torn off, or were damaged by falling trees.

Began near Spooner (45.8333, -92.0500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5261854. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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