Tornado, Douglas
- When
- August 23, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County, 1 mi N of Maple
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Property damage
- $29,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.580, -91.720
Tornado in Wisconsin, August 23, 1998
An older model trailer home was tipped on its side by a weak tornado. Douglas County Sheriff's deputies followed the funnel cloud and saw it briefly touch down.
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
- $29,000
- 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 DLH wrote it up.
An older model trailer home was tipped on its side by a weak tornado. Douglas County Sheriff's deputies followed the funnel cloud and saw it briefly touch down. The east half of the roof of the mobile home was located about 150 yards away, wrapped around a tree. The mobile home was not fastened down. A nearby garage was also destroyed.
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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- Flooding in Texas, August 23, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, August 23, 1998
- Rip Current in Florida, August 23, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 23, 1998
- Flood in Texas, August 23, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, August 23, 1998
- Rip Current in Delaware, August 23 to 29, 1998
- Rip Current in Florida, August 23, 1998
- Heat in Missouri, August 23 to 25, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, August 23, 1998
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1998Warnings in Wisconsin, August 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: 5664765.