Tornado, Marathon
- When
- August 7, 1:45 AM CST to 1:49 AM CST
- Where
- Marathon County, Stratford to 7 mi NNW of Fenwood
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 45.070, -90.070
Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
5 miles north of Stratford, tore the top portion of a home off, flattened a garage and snapped off several large trees. 5 miles, damaging a storage shed and 30 trees on a farm.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $200,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
A tornado touched down 6.5 miles north of Stratford, tore the top portion of a home off, flattened a garage and snapped off several large trees. The storm moved east-northeast for 2.5 miles, damaging a storage shed and 30 trees on a farm. Dozens of Ginseng shelters were thrown about. The tornado was not on the ground for the entire path.
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 165 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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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- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, August 7, 1996
- Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Georgia, August 7, 1996
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1996Warnings in Wisconsin, August 1996
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: 5567425.