Wisconsin

Storms in Wisconsin in 1958

32 events in 15 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Wisconsin in 1958, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Wisconsin in 1958 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Wisconsin

The year

Events
32
Deaths
28
Injuries
140
Damage
$84 million
Episodes
15

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado2128140$84 million
Hail600
Thunderstorm Wind500

Every episode, month by month

May 1958

June 1958

July 1958

August 1958

September 1958

October 1958

November 1958

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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.