Tornado, Washburn
- When
- June 5, 4:20 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Washburn County, Sarona to 1 mi NE of Sarona
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3.5 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.730, -91.820
Tornado in Wisconsin, June 5, 1999
A weak tornado knocked down power lines and hundreds of trees. It also destroyed a garage and damaged a barn.
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 DLH wrote it up.
A weak tornado knocked down power lines and hundreds of trees. It also destroyed a garage and damaged a barn. Two camping trailers, a pickup truck, and a pontoon boat near Deep Lake were damaged by falling trees.
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:21 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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- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 5, 1999
- Hail in South Dakota, June 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, June 5 to 6, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 5, 1999
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wisconsin, 1999Warnings in Wisconsin, June 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: 5704015.