This years severe weather....

Has this summer been a wild one in the severe weather dept? Lets look at it shall we.....


This past summer we had 6 tornado watches issued for the area.... We had 6 severe thunderstorm watches issued for the area... Now remind you not all days there was a watch in effect we did get severe weather, or we may have got severe weather when there was no watches in effect for the area....

Lets go ahead and break down the watches...

First of lets look at the tornado watches...

First tornado watch was issued for the area on June 17th from 5:50 PM to 1:00 AM June 18th....

June 25th Tornado watch issued from 3:35 PM to 12:00 AM June 26....

July 14th a Tornado watch issued from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM...

July 27th Tornado watch issued from 3:30 PM to 11:00 PM...

August 7th Tornado watch issued from Midnight to 5:00 AM...

August 12 Tornado watch issued from 6:40 PM to 11:00 PM...

Now lets look at the severe thunderstorm watches issued for the area....

April 30th Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 12:25 PM to 7:00 PM...

June 22 Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM June 23....

July 17th Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 8:55 PM to 3:00 AM July 18....

August 8th Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 6:30 PM to 2:00 AM August 9....

August 13... Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 1:20 AM to 9:00 AM....

August 13 Severe thunderstorm watch issued from 2:40 PM to 10:00 PM....

So grand total of watches issued stands at 12...This is still subject to change....

Tornado Count per Barron, Dunn, Polk, and ST.Croix Counties are as follows along with the EF ratings..

Barron County saw 3 tornados.... EF1 NE of Turtle Lake...EF1 tornado 3 miles sse of Cameron... EF1 tornado 4 to 6 miles Northeast of Cumberland...

Dunn County saw one tornado EF0 2 miles w/nw of Boyceville..

Polk County saw 3 tornadoes... EF1 2 miles North of Turtle Lake...EF0 in the Balsam Lake area.... EFO tornado 2 miles West and South of Bone Lake....

St. Croix County saw one tornado that was an EF1 2 miles or so W/NW of Hammond....

Barron County can up the winner with the highest ratings on all the tornados... Not only that Barron County saw more damage and more widespread wind along with hail damage than any other County in Western WI...St.Croix and Dunn Counties came up winners in the widespread flooding damage, the worst I have seen to hit the area in all my chasing yrs.....Remind you I was chasing all these events so based on what I've seen through the said Counties is how I came up with winners....With many pictures to back it up.... The tornado ratings came from the NWS....