Tornado, Dodge
- When
- August 9, 7:43 PM CST to 7:48 PM CST
- Where
- Dodge County, Rice Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.120, -93.050
Tornado in Minnesota, August 9, 1999
No damage or injuries were reported.
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
- 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 ARX wrote it up.
A storm spotter reported a small tornado on Rice Lake, which lifted along the east side of the lake.No damage or injuries were reported.
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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 9, 1999
- Hail in Minnesota, August 9, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Minnesota, August 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 9, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 9, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 9, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 9, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, August 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 9, 1999
- Hail in Minnesota, August 9, 1999
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1999Warnings in Minnesota, August 1999
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: 5710043.