EF1 tornado in Dane County, Wisconsin
Tornado July 28, 2021 · Dane County, Wisconsin
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Dane County → Dane County → Dane County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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
This was 1 of 17 tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin on the night of July 28th into the early morning hours of July 29th. This was the 9th overall tornado for the event. A line of storms developed in northern Wisconsin and pushed south into southern Wisconsin in the overnight hours of the 28th into the 29th of July with mainly brief tornadoes and damaging winds occurring.
This tornado began near the Town of Middleton along Old Sauk Rd and went through some subdivisions before ending south of Valley View Rd.
The wider storm
A round of severe storms tracked into southwest Wisconsin during the early morning hours on July 28th. Followed by another round of stronger, more widespread thunderstorms that begin to dive south across central Wisconsin late in the evening on July 28th through the early morning hours on July 29th.
Began near Pine Bluff (43.0759, -89.5869).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
8 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 970915. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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