Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 9, 11:41 AM CST
- Where
- Polk County, 3 mi N of Centuria
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.500, -92.550
Brief Touchdown. No damage.
Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, July 9, 1999
2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 5
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.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:39 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 9, 11:52 AM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Balsam Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -92.450
Few trees and power lines down along six blocks in Balsam Lake. Pole barn down on the east side of Balsam Lake.
Funnel Cloud, Barron
- When
- July 9, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Barron County, 3 mi NE of Turtle Lake
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.424, -91.848 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel came very close to ground.
Funnel Cloud, Barron
- When
- July 9, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Barron County, 3 mi S of Rice Lake
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.424, -91.848 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Barron
- When
- July 9, 12:35 PM CST
- Where
- Barron County, 3 mi N of Cameron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -91.750
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.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 9, 1999
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 9, 1999
- Wildfire in Virginia, July 9, 1999
- Tornado in Florida, July 9, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 9, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 9, 1999
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1999Warnings in Wisconsin, July 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: 5715114, 5715115, 5715182, 5715183, 5715184.