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F1 Tornado — Marathon, Wisconsin

2002-04-18 · near Stratford, Marathon, Wisconsin

$1.4M

Property damage

14.0 mi

Path length

100 yds

Path width

Wider weather episode

A warm front across Wisconsin lifted north during the afternoon and evening. Moist and very unstable air south of the front led to the development of severe thunderstorms. The storms produced 5 tornadoes, damaging straight line winds, large hail and some flooding.Brief tornado touchdowns in Lincoln county, Oneida county and Marathon county snapped numerous trees. Marathon county had hundreds of trees downed and numerous barns and farm sheds destroyed by a combination of straight line winds and a tornado that remained on the ground for 14 miles. Plows had to be used in Marathon county to clear trees from some of the roads.Other storms across central, north-central and east-central Wisconsin downed numerous trees, dropped hail as large as 3 inches in diameter, in Lincoln county, and flooded roads and basements in the Niagara (Marinette co.) and Rhinelander (Oneida co.) areas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5293645. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.