Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Sawyer
- When
- February 8, 4:30 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Sawyer forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 45.880, -91.145 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold in Wisconsin, February 8, 2009
A Hayward man was found dead from apparent hypothermia. |The man was last seen leaving his sister's home around 4:30 am February 8th.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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 Hayward man was found dead from apparent hypothermia. The man was found in a field near Round Lake and Sawyer County Road B.|The man was last seen leaving his sister's home around 4:30 am February 8th. Temperatures were in the single digits above zero with calm winds. His body was discovered on the 10th.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Sawyer | 2009-02-08 | 47 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Pennsylvania, February 8 to 13, 2009
- Flooding in Ohio, February 8 to 10, 2009
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, February 8, 2009
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, February 8 to 10, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Colorado, February 8 to 10, 2009
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, February 8 to 10, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Texas, February 8, 2009
- Heavy Snow in Utah, February 8 to 10, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, February 8, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Texas, February 8, 2009
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, February 8 to 9, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Utah, February 8 to 10, 2009
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, February 2009
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 154481.