Tornado, Rusk
- When
- September 12, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rusk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 12 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 45.370, -91.200
Tornadoes in Wisconsin, September 12, 1982
7 tornado, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $8.1 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
7 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Eau Claire
- When
- September 12, 3:18 PM CST
- Where
- Eau Claire County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 44.770, -91.500
Tornado, Dunn
- When
- September 12, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dunn County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 44.880, -91.920
Tornado, Dunn
- When
- September 12, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dunn County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 44.770, -91.930
Tornado, Chippewa
- When
- September 12, 6:17 PM CST
- Where
- Chippewa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 44.900, -91.630
Tornado, Eau Claire
- When
- September 12, 6:27 PM CST
- Where
- Eau Claire County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 77 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 44.800, -91.550
Tornado, Chippewa
- When
- September 12, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Chippewa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 45.170, -91.130
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, September 12, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 12, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 12, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 12, 1982
- Hail in Washington, September 12, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, September 12, 1982
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: 10147346, 10147347, 10147348, 10147349, 10147350, 10147351, 10147352.