High Wind, Taylor
- When
- April 12, 6:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor forecast zone
- Measured
- 47 kt (54 mph)
- Property damage
- $12,000
- Coordinates
- 45.212, -90.501 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Wisconsin, April 12, 1998
Strong winds whipped through the Medford area uprooting large trees in a cemetery. Several headstones and grave markers were damaged.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $12,000
- 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 ARX wrote it up.
Strong winds whipped through the Medford area uprooting large trees in a cemetery. Several headstones and grave markers were damaged.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Iowa, April 12, 1998
- Winter Storm in Utah, April 12 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 12, 1998
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 12, 1998
- High Wind in Minnesota, April 12, 1998
- High Wind in Kansas, April 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 12, 1998
- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, April 12 to 13, 1998
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 12, 1998
- High Wind in Alaska, April 12 to 14, 1998
- High Wind in Oklahoma, April 12, 1998
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, April 1998
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: 5639891.