Tornado, Kenosha
- When
- July 24, 2:05 PM CST to 2:18 PM CST
- Where
- Kenosha County, Wilmot to 1 mi NE of Benet Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.520, -88.180
Tornado in Wisconsin, July 24, 1996
A weak tornado hopped and skipped across mostly open rural areas on an easterly path. It was not on the ground the entire time.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 MKX wrote it up.
A weak tornado hopped and skipped across mostly open rural areas on an easterly path. It was not on the ground the entire time. Touchdown was .5 mile N of Wilmot and liftoff was 2.8 miles northeast of Benet Lake. Damage was limited to just trees. There were no injuries or deaths, or any known structural damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Texas, July 24, 1996
- Tornado in Iowa, July 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Alabama, July 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 24, 1996
- High Surf in California, July 24 to 26, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 24, 1996
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1996Warnings in Wisconsin, July 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: 5558492.