Waterspout, Door
- When
- August 4, 4:05 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Door County, 21 mi ESE of Sturgeon Bay
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 44.838, -87.358 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Waterspout in Wisconsin, August 4, 1999
Thunderstorms that moved across Door county produced waterspouts over Lake Michigan. S.
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
- 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.
Thunderstorms that moved across Door county produced waterspouts over Lake Michigan. The U.S. Coast Guard relayed a report they received from a vessel on the lake. The crew of the vessel observed 3 small waterspouts about 21 miles east-southeast of Sturgeon Bay.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, August 4, 1999
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Colorado, August 4, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, August 4 to 28, 1999
- Damaging Wind in California, August 4, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Washington, August 4, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 4, 1999
- Waterspouts in Florida, August 4, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 4, 1999
- Hail in Michigan, August 4, 1999
- Hail in Indiana, August 4, 1999
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 4, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 4, 1999
More
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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: 5714048.