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EF2 tornado in Dodge County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 28, 2018 · Dodge County, Wisconsin

EF2
Rating
15.1 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
$169K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This was the strongest tornado of the event and went just north of the Village of Brownsville. The worst damage was to a Canadian National Railway communications tower which was crumpled over. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms produced widespread wind damage and 18 brief tornadoes across mainly Marquette, Green Lake, Fond du Lac, northern Dodge, and Sheboygan Counties. Flash flooding and river flooding also occurred in several of these areas, especially the Baraboo River in northern Sauk County. The Baraboo River reached major to record flood stage late August into September after 10 to 12 inches of rain over the Baraboo River basin the last two weeks of August.

Began near Nasbro (43.6153, -88.5222).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marquette CountyEF1 Marquette CountyEF1 Green Lake CountyEF1 Fond Du Lac CountyEF1 Fond Du Lac CountyEF1 Sheboygan CountyEF0 Green Lake CountyEF0 Fond Du Lac CountyEF0 Sheboygan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 782581. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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