Wisconsin

Storms in Wisconsin in 1968

85 events in 29 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Wisconsin in 1968, 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 1968 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
85
Deaths
2
Injuries
14
Damage
$6.5 million
Episodes
29

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
Thunderstorm Wind4600
Tornado22214$6.5 million
Hail1700

Every episode, month by month

March 1968

April 1968

May 1968

June 1968

July 1968

August 1968

September 1968

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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.