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EF1 tornado in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin
Tornado August 28, 2018 · Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin
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.
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 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. EF2 Damage occurred with the tornado further south at the onset of the tornado with EF1 damage occurring at the tail end of the tornado in southern Fond du Lac county.
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 South Byron (43.6316, -88.4626).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 832904. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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