Tornado, Wood
- When
- August 3, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wood County, 3 mi W of Pittsville
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.450, -90.200
Tornado in Wisconsin, August 3, 1999
A tornado briefly touched down, knocking down trees three miles west of Pittsville (Wood county).
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 GRB wrote it up.
A tornado briefly touched down, knocking down trees three miles west of Pittsville (Wood county).
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:47 UTC.
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 Louisiana, August 3, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 3, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Nevada, August 3, 1999
- Flood and Wildfire in Idaho, August 3 to 7, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New Mexico, August 3 to 6, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 3, 1999
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1999Warnings in Wisconsin, 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: 5714061.