High Wind, Marquette
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Marquette forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.820, -89.399 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Wisconsin, April 7, 2001
Widespread gradient high winds raked south-central and southeast Wisconsin for 5 hours. Maximum winds gusts were in the 50 to 57 knot range (58 to 66 mph).
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 20 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
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 20
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 MKX wrote it up.
Widespread gradient high winds raked south-central and southeast Wisconsin for 5 hours. Maximum winds gusts were in the 50 to 57 knot range (58 to 66 mph). There were numerous reports of felled trees and broken tree branches, roof shingles and rain gutters torn from homes, and chain-link fence damage. The strongest sustained winds and gusts occurred mostly between 1400 and 1600CST. The 57 knot (66 mph ) maximum gust was observed at the Milwaukee Betty Brinn Museum. A gust of 55 knots (63 mph) was observed by a severe weather spotter near Dousman (Waukesha). About 49,000 customers lost electricity at one time or another.A tractor-trailer driver on Interstate 90 near Janesville (Rock Co.) was injured when his truck was blown over. The wind gusts capsized a boat east of the Hoan Bridge in the nearshore waters of Lake Michigan, but the occupants were rescued. In the city of Salem (Kenosha Co.), the high winds pushed a dumpster into a parked law enforcement vehicle which resulted in major damage. In the city of Kenosha (Kenosha Co.), the high winds toppled a 50-foot tall antenna onto a home, resulting in roof and rain gutter damage. Grass fires were noted in the counties of Milwaukee, Washington, Columbia, Walworth, Racine, Waukesha, Green, and Rock. At least 400 acres burned in Walworth County.Synoptically, deep low pressure moved northeast through central Minnesota to northern Wisconsin. Southwest winds at 850 mb (about 5000 feet AGL) were in the 60 to 65 knot range over eastern Iowa into southern Wisconsin. At 500mb (about 18,000 feet AGL) they were 80 to 90 knots.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1030 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2001 HIGH WIND WARNING FCST STILL LOOKS GUD. 88D VAD WIND PROFILE SHOWS WINDS INCREASING JUST A GATE OR TWO OFF THE SFC...REACHING 55KTS AT THIS TIME. WINDS UPSTREAM ACROSS IOWA PEGGING WARNING CRITERIA WINDS AND EXPECT SOME OF THIS TO REACH THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. WE ARE SQUARELY IN THE DRY SLOT...THOUGH LLVS REMAIN MOIST WITH DWPNTS IN THE LOWER AND MID 60S SOUTH CENTRAL. ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT DWPNT BNDRIES AND THERE POTENTIAL TO LIGHT UP...BUT THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ENUF EVIDENCE THAT PCPN WILL DVLP. HAVE PULLED PCPN FOR THIS AFTN. TEMPS HAVE ROCKETED EARLY...PREV FCSTR BUMPED TEMPS FOR TODAY...A GUD MOVE. .MKX...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY AND THIS EVENING...ALL OF CWA 46..47..51..52..56>72. DAVIS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
20 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Green Lake
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Green Lake forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.800, -89.045 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Fond du Lac
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fond du Lac forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.754, -88.488 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Sheboygan
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sheboygan forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.756, -87.800 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Sauk
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sauk forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.427, -89.948 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Columbia
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Columbia forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.467, -89.334 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Dodge
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dodge forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.416, -88.707 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Washington
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Washington forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.369, -88.231 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Ozaukee
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ozaukee forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.403, -87.891 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Iowa
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Iowa forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.001, -90.135 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Dane
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dane forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.067, -89.418 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Jefferson
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.021, -88.776 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Waukesha
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Waukesha forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.018, -88.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Milwaukee
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Milwaukee forecast zone
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.022, -87.929 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lafayette
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.661, -90.132 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Green
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Green forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.680, -89.602 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Rock
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rock forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.671, -89.072 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Walworth
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Walworth forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.669, -88.542 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Racine
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Racine forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.730, -87.812 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Kenosha
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kenosha forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.573, -87.840 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in California, April 7 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 7 to 9, 2001
- High Wind in Iowa, April 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in California, April 7, 2001
- High Wind in Illinois, April 7, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 7 to 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, April 7 to 8, 2001
- High Wind in Minnesota, April 7, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 7 to 26, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 7 to 26, 2001
- High Wind in Iowa, April 7, 2001
- Flooding in South Dakota, April 7 to 8, 2001
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: 5240287, 5240288, 5240289, 5240290, 5240291, 5240292, 5240293, 5240294, 5240295, 5240296, 5240297, 5240298, 5240299, 5240300, 5240301, 5240302, 5240303, 5240304, 5240305, 5240306.