The New Richmond tornado

We sure can't forget about this day back on June 12 1899 St. Croix County WI the city of New Richmond had an unprecedented tornado disaster...This tornado claimed 117 lives and injuring over 125 people...The city was nearly wipe off the map... There was a circus in town that day, by time the circus was wrapping up around 4:30 PM...Which may have caused the death total to be higher.. Though back in them days our warning system for severe weather was nil... So lets look at this deadly tornado closer.... The tornado formed over the St. Croix lake as a water spout....The water spout made landfall at that time it became a tornado...This tornado then moved East mainly over rural areas of St. Croix County, did wipe out several farms near Burkhardt and Boardman killing 3 people... The tornado then slammed into New Richmond where it killed 114 people...


This deadly tornado was rated and F5 on the old Fujita scale...The tornado is the 8th highest deadly tornado in American history, and ranks the 34th deadliest tornado in the world.....
Also see this post from last yrs Burkhardt tornado...

http://dirksforecastingcenter.blogspot.com/2009/08/burkhardt-storm-damage-pictures.html


Sources... From my facebook page posted by Meteorology and from Wikipedia..
Just another reason why I storm chase/spot... To help get the warnings out in time and to help save lives...What most people don't know about storm chasing is that is can be very stressful..Your dealing with so many things at one time. I will talk about that later today or this evening....