Tornado, Grant
- When
- June 26, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -90.450
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 26, 1973
3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $750,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Iowa
- When
- June 26, 6:01 PM CST
- Where
- Iowa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 19.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -90.430
Thunderstorm Wind, Iowa
- When
- June 26, 6:29 PM CST
- Where
- Iowa County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -90.180
Tornado, Iowa
- When
- June 26, 6:41 PM CST
- Where
- Iowa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -90.030
Thunderstorm Wind, Dane
- When
- June 26, 7:17 PM CST
- Where
- Dane County
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.130, -89.330
Thunderstorm Wind, Fond du Lac
- When
- June 26, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Fond du Lac County
- Coordinates
- 43.800, -88.800
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, June 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, June 26, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 26, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 26, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 26, 1973
- Tornado in Texas, June 26, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 26, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 26, 1973
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1973Every state in 1973This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1973
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: 10146824, 10146825, 10146826, 10146827, 10146828, 10146829.