Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 16, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 16, 2002
Start: 2002-06-16T18:45
End: 2002-06-16T18:50
Location: Wisconsin

June 16, 2002 · NWS MKX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Several large trees were toppled by powerful straight-line winds as an isolated severe thunderstorm moved through Dane County.

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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 MKX wrote it up.

Several large trees were toppled by powerful straight-line winds as an isolated severe thunderstorm moved through Dane County.

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 Jun 16, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
300 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2002

FORECAST FOCUS IS ON CRNT CNVTV ACTVTY AND ON MORE COMING IN
FM THE NW...THEN ON NXT CHC OF RN LATER IN PD.

TSTMS THIS AFTN ARE NOT QUITE AS STG AND WDSPRD AS YDY...AT LEAST
TO THIS POINT. THINK THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH LACK OF APRNT
BDRYS AND SFC DWPTS 5 TO 10 DEGS LWR THAN 24 HRS AGO.

NOT MUCH OF A LULL BEFORE NXT SURGE OF CNVTN RACING IN FM NW AHD OF
CNDN SHRTWV. WL PRBLY JUST MENTION SCTD SHWRS AND STORMS ALL OF
CWA TNGT.

MODELS HV MOST OF THE PCPN OUT OF HERE BY TMRW MRNG. THUS PLAN ON
GOING WITH A BRK IN THE ACTION UNTIL CHC OF WAA RN LATER MON NGT OR
TUE.

.MKX...NONE.

NJ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:33 PM CST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
733 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2002

SPOTTER ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    BRIGGSVILLE               WI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/16/02   MARQUETTE                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

MW

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Dane

When: June 16, 6:45 PM CST to 6:50 PM CST
Where: Dane County, Madison
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 43.067, -89.417

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Wisconsin, June 2002

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: 5302991.