F2 tornado — Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

F2 tornado in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 18, 1996 · Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

Rating

7.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injury

$450K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Calumet County → Fond Du Lac County → Fond Du Lac County → Calumet County → Calumet County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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.

The wider storm

A strong tornado (F2) struck Marytown, resulting in 1 fatility (81 year old male) and 1 injury. This tornado actually touched down in Calumet county about 1.1 miles SE of Jericho (see WFO GRB Stormdata report), and then headed southeast into into Fond du Lac county at a point 2.0 NW of Marytown. It destroyed or damaged at least a couple dozen barns, sheds, and homes on a southeastward path. Many large trees were uprooted. The north side of Marytown was hit the hardest, where a house trailer, 3 homes, and a machine shed were destroyed. The tornado exited Fond du Lac county at a point 2.5 miles SE of Marytown and re-entered Calumet county where it quickly dissapated. The path length in Fond du Lac county was 4.4 miles.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5558502. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

The wider storm

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