Storm History: Sauk County, Wisconsin
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sauk County, Wisconsin: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 940
- Deaths
- 8
- Injuries
- 39
- Damage
- $95 million
- Episodes
- 707
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 154 | 0 | 15 | $26 million |
| Hail | 142 | 0 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| Winter Weather | 135 | 5 | 6 | |
| Flash Flood | 83 | 0 | 0 | $48 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 75 | 0 | 4 | $1.8 million |
| Winter Storm | 67 | 0 | 0 | $32,000 |
| Dense Fog | 63 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 53 | 0 | 1 | $14 million |
| Heat | 29 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 28 | 1 | 6 | |
| Strong Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $84,000 |
| Drought | 18 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 13 | 0 | 0 | $226,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 13 | 1 | 5 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 12 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Blizzard | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 4 | 1 | 2 | $5,000 |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2008
- Tornado, June 1, 2000
- Flood, June 1, 2004
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Tornado, July 4, 1994
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2000
- Lightning, August 24, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 1998
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2018
- Flood, June 18, 1996
- Hail, October 4, 2006
- Tornado, August 18, 2005
- Hail, August 21, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 17, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2004
- Tornado, April 13, 2026
- Hail, August 3, 1997
- Ice Storm, December 23, 1996
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 6, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2004
- Hail, May 12, 2000
- Hail, August 3, 1997
- Flash Flood, April 18, 2025
- Hail, August 29, 1984
- Hail, August 3, 1977
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2022
- Hail, August 4, 1989
- Hail, July 20, 1980
- Hail, September 19, 2016
- Hail, July 18, 2012
- Hail, April 18, 2002
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2002
- Hail, July 1, 1997
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, July 3, 1983
- Tornado, April 27, 1984
- Tornado, June 26, 1969
- Tornado, June 4, 1975
- Tornado, May 8, 1988
- Tornado, June 23, 2004
- Tornado, August 18, 2005
- Tornado, May 25, 1965
- Tornado, July 3, 1966
- Tornado, August 15, 1966
- Tornado, August 9, 1979
- Tornado, May 17, 1982
- Tornado, July 19, 1983
- Tornado, September 24, 1984
- Tornado, October 16, 1984
Every episode, newest first
- Excessive Heat, June 30, 2026
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2026
- Tornado, June 10, 2026
- Hail, May 27, 2026
- Hail, April 27, 2026
- Tornado, April 17, 2026
- Tornado, April 13, 2026
- Winter Weather, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 15, 2026
- Winter Weather, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 12, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 28, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 18, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 16, 2026
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 13, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Flood, June 23, 2025
- Excessive Heat, June 21, 2025
- Tornado, May 15, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 18, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 19, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 15, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2024
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 26, 2024
- Funnel Cloud, August 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2024
- Hail, June 24, 2024
- Tornado, June 22, 2024
- Tornado, May 21, 2024
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 21, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 23, 2023
- Tornado, July 28, 2023
- Hail, July 16, 2023
- Hail, July 14, 2023
- Flash Flood, April 19, 2023
- Winter Weather, April 16, 2023
- Tornado, April 4, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 25, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2023
- Ice Storm, February 22, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 18, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 14, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2022
- Excessive Heat, August 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 21, 2022
- Flood, June 15, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 14, 2022
- High Wind, April 14, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 31, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 6, 2022
- Tornado, March 5, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 15, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2021
- Tornado, July 28, 2021
- Hail, July 14, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2021
- Winter Weather, March 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 13, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 27, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2020
- Flash Flood, October 22, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2020
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2020
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2019
- Strong Wind, November 27, 2019
- Winter Weather, November 6, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 28, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 12, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2019
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2019
- Winter Weather, April 10, 2019
- Flood, March 13, 2019
- Winter Weather, March 9, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 26, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 23, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2019
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2019
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 12, 2018
- Strong Wind, October 20, 2018
- Flood, September 1, 2018
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 26, 2018
- Heat, July 4, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2018
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2018
- Heat, June 16, 2018
- Flood, May 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 18, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2018
- Hail, April 13, 2018
- Winter Weather, April 3, 2018
- Winter Weather, March 5, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2018
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 25, 2017
- High Wind, December 4, 2017
- Flood, July 20, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2017
- Hail, July 15, 2017
- Hail, June 14, 2017
- Hail, May 17, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, March 12, 2017
- High Wind, March 8, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 6, 2017
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2017
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 16, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2016
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 18, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2016
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 14, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 4, 2016
- Flood, September 22, 2016
- Hail, September 19, 2016
- Flash Flood, September 7, 2016
- Hail, August 18, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2016
- Heat, July 21, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, May 15, 2016
- Winter Weather, April 2, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- High Wind, March 16, 2016
- Hail, March 15, 2016
- Hail, March 6, 2016
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2016
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 20, 2015
- Hail, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2015
- Heavy Rain, June 25, 2015
- Hail, May 3, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2015
- Blizzard, February 1, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 9, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 8, 2014
- Winter Weather, November 28, 2014
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2014
- Heat, July 22, 2014
- Tornado, June 29, 2014
- Tornado, June 25, 2014
- Tornado, June 18, 2014
- Heavy Rain, June 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 13, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2014
- Blizzard, January 26, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 19, 2013
- Dense Fog, December 3, 2013
- Hail, October 3, 2013
- Hail, September 19, 2013
- Heat, August 30, 2013
- Heat, July 16, 2013
- Tornado, June 22, 2013
- Hail, May 30, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 2013
- Hail, April 30, 2013
- High Wind, April 10, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 26, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 21, 2013
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Sauk CountyEvery warning in Sauk County since 1986Every county in Wisconsin
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.