Tornado in Wisconsin, June 12, 1994

Name: Tornado in Wisconsin, June 12, 1994
Start: 1994-06-12T23:42
End: 1994-06-12T23:42
Location: Wisconsin

June 12, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: $5,000
Events: 1

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

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Iowa

When: June 12, 11:42 PM CST
Where: Iowa County, Patch Grove to
Rating: F1
Path length: 5 mi
Path width: 300 yd
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: $5,000
Coordinates: 42.950, -90.950

A tornado traveled easterly 5 miles across Grant county from 1 mile northeast of Patch Grove to 1 mile south of Mt. Hope. The tornado ripped a roof from a large hay barn, threw over a grain elevator, damaged several homes and leveled numerous trees and power lines. A severe thunderstorm dropped golfball hail and developed intense winds which downed power lines just west of Dodgeville (Iowa county).

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Wisconsin in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1994 Warnings in Wisconsin, June 1994

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: 10357998.