EF1 tornado in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 28, 2018 · Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

EF1

Rating

15.1 mi

Whole path

100 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 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado went through mainly rural areas east of South Byron and ending up south of Eden. 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 Byron (43.6386, -88.4267).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marquette County EF1 Marquette County EF1 Green Lake County EF1 Fond Du Lac County EF1 Fond Du Lac County EF1 Sheboygan County EF0 Green Lake County EF0 Fond Du Lac County EF0 Sheboygan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 782588. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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