Tornado, Iowa
- When
- April 3, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Iowa County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.100, -90.250
Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, April 3, 1956
4 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 9
- Injuries
- 52
- Property damage
- $5.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Portage
- When
- April 3, 12:50 PM CST
- Where
- Portage County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 18.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Deaths
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -89.520
Tornado, Green Lake
- When
- April 3, 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Green Lake County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Deaths
- 7 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 50 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.930, -88.970
Tornado, Waushara
- When
- April 3, 1:53 PM CST
- Where
- Waushara County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 9.6 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.980, -88.930
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- April 3, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -88.680
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes in Oklahoma, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes in Kansas, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes in Missouri, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes in Kentucky, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes in Indiana, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 3, 1956
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 3, 1956
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 3, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 3, 1956
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10147919, 10147920, 10147921, 10147922, 10147923.