Tornado, Dunn
- When
- June 24, 1:10 PM CST
- Where
- Dunn County, 1 mi N of Menomonie
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $22,000
- Coordinates
- 44.900, -91.920
Shed destroyed. Corn stalks driven into the seams of house siding.
Tornado and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 24, 1997
1 tornado, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $22,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:11 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning, Barron
- When
- June 24, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Barron County, Cumberland
- Coordinates
- 45.424, -91.848 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning strike to business.
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.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 24 to 26, 1997
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 24, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 24, 1997
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 24, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 24, 1997
- Flood in Nebraska, June 24 to 25, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 24, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 24, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 24, 1997
- Flood in Florida, June 24, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 1997
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1997Warnings in Wisconsin, June 1997
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: 5607929, 5607930.