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F0 tornado in Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Tornado May 15, 1998 · Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Rating

8.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injuries

$120K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

60 to 70 mph winds downed trees and power lines. Small tornadoes touched down briefly near Mondovi and West Salem. The one near West Salem sheared off the tops of trees and destroyed a barn. A woman in the barn at the time was injured slightly.

Began near Mondovi (44.5700, -91.8300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 La Crosse County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5642216. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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