Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska · 2014

EF0 tornado, Burwell, Nebraska, June 16, 2014

Name: EF0 tornado, Burwell, Nebraska, June 16, 2014
Start: 2014-06-17T00:30:00.000Z
Location: Burwell, Nebraska

This EF0 tornado ran 0.2 miles across Garfield County on June 16, 2014, touching down at 7:30 PM CDT and reaching 40 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $1,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: June 16, 2014
Touchdown: 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Path length: 0.2 miles (0.3 km)
Path width: 40 yards (37 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
County: Garfield County
Touchdown point: 41.830, -98.954
Lift-off point: 41.830, -98.954
Record number: 1406161830-01

The damage survey

32 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS LBF, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 130 mph.

at intersection of hwy 91 and 463 NE

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

A warm front across central Nebraska became the focus for supercell thunderstorm development. The severe storms produced six tornadoes and large hail. The first tornado occurred in far northeast Custer County and the last occurred in southeastern Garfield County. Three of the six tornadoes in Garfield County were rated EF-2, where tornado damage included large tree trunks snapped, wooden power poles snapped, center irrigation pivots overturned, a small outbuilding overturned and street signs damaged.

At 1830CST, a tornado briefly touched down 9 miles east northeast of Burwell. The tornado downed several large tree limbs. Peak winds estimated 75 mph with the tornado rated and EF-0. Maximum path width was 400 yards.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
715 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

.SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY)
ISSUED AT 317 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF
HOURS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA...INVOF A WARM
FRONT/REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. THIS BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM NEAR
VALENTINE TO BROKEN BOW...WITH CU FIELD GROWING MORE AGITATED.
STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SUPERCELLS QUICKLY. WINDS ARE BACKED TO
THE SOUTHEAST TO THE EAST OF THE AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARY...AND
THIS AREA WILL HAVE A TORNADO THREAT IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. STORMS SHOULD QUICKLY MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THIS
EVENING. ON TUESDAY...WILL HAVE WATCH THE AREA ALONG THE SOUTH
DAKOTA BORDER...AS MODELS HINTING AT THE WARM FRONT REMAINING IN
THAT AREA. THIS COULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR ISOLATED STORM
DEVELOPMENT. OTHERWISE ACROSS CENTRAL INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL ADVECT DRIER AND WARM AIR INTO THE
REGION...WITH HIGHS INTO THE LOWER AND POSSIBLY MID 90S.

.LONG TERM...(TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)
ISSUED AT 317 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

THE FORECAST FOCUS FOR THIS PERIOD IS THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR
WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THEN WITH THE TRACK OF THE UPPER
LEVEL LOW OVER THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK...WHICH WILL IMPACT
TEMPERATURES AND ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION CHANCES.

FOR TUESDAY NIGHT...IN THE EARLY EVENING AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE
WILL BE SITUATED FROM EASTERN WYOMING INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO.
MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT A DRY LINE WILL HAVE PUSHED
THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE DAYTIME HOURS
TO LEAVE DEWPOINTS IN THE 40S AND 50S LOCALLY...WHILE AREAS NORTH
AND EAST OF THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO SEE 60S...WITH EVEN SOME LOW
70S INTO SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. THERE IS SOME
INDICATION THAT THE WARM FRONT WILL BE SLIGHTLY INTO NEBRASKA...WITH
THE EASTERLY FLOW KEEPING THE HIGHER DEWPOINTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN
TIER OF COUNTIES. THE LOW LEVEL JET DOES PICK UP IN THE
EVENING...HOWEVER THE MODELS HAVE IT PUSHING OFF TO THE NORTH AND
EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA SO WILL NEED TO RELY ON SOME LIFT WITH ANY
SHORTWAVE ENERGY COMING OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST TO GET CONVECTION OVER
THE WARM FRONT IN THE EVENING. A STRONG CAP WILL EXIST OVER THE WARM
SECTOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WITH THE WARM AIR ADVECTION/MOISTURE
TRANSPORT FROM THE LOW LEVEL JET EAST OF THE AREA DON/T SEE ENOUGH
TO GET ELEVATED CONVECTION IN THE WARM SECTOR. ON THE FENCE ABOUT
CHANCES OVER NORTHERN NEBRASKA AS THERE REALLY AREN/T ANY STRONG
SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE AREA...BUT WITH THE MOISTURE IN
PLACE...IT MAY NOT TAKE MUCH. WITH LITTLE CONFIDENCE WILL STICK WITH
CONTINUITY FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE AND WATCH CLOSELY HOW THE
MODELS TREND OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

ON WEDNESDAY...THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL LOW BEGINS TO LIFT OUT OF THE
IDAHO AREA UP INTO MONTANA. THE MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH
THIS...HOWEVER THERE ARE CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES CONCERNING THE
EVOLUTION OF A SHORTWAVE TROUGH ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE LONGWAVE
TROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  THIS HAS A
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE FORECAST FOR LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE 16.00Z ECMWF AND 16.12Z GEM SHOW A STRONGER
SHORTWAVE PUSHING ACROSS NORTHERN COLORADO AND INTO THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WHILE THE NAM AND GFS ARE A BIT MORE
SUBTLE WITH THIS SHORTWAVE AND KEEP THE ENERGY FURTHER NORTH. THESE
DIFFERENCES LEAD TO DIFFERENCES IN PLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE COLD
FRONT...WITH THE NAM/GFS BEING QUICKER TO MOVE THE COLD FRONT
THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA...AND THEN KEEP THE MAJORITY OF THE
PRECIPITATION EAST OF THE FRONT INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA. THE ECMWF/GEM
ON THE OTHER HAND ARE SLOWER TO PROGRESS THE FRONT...AND WITH
STRONGER UPWARD FORCING ALOFT WITH THE PASSING OF THE SHORTWAVE WOULD
DEVELOP PRECIPITATION POST-FRONTALLY ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN NEBRASKA
OVERNIGHT. WILL EDGE ON UNCERTAINTY AT THIS POINT AND GO WITH A
BLEND OF THE MODEL SOLUTIONS FOR THIS TIME PERIOD UNTIL BETTER
CONSENSUS IS REACHED AMONG THE MODELS.

THE FORECAST FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK CENTERS ON THE UPPER
LOW MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN PLAINS. THE LATEST MODEL
RUNS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH THE SPEED OF THE EASTWARD
PROGRESSION...HOWEVER VARY IN LATITUDE...WITH THE CENTER RANGING
FROM JUST NORTH OF THE CANADA/NORTH DAKOTA BORDER TO ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PART OF NORTH DAKOTA. THEN BY FRIDAY NIGHT...IT LIFTS
NORTHEAST INTO ONTARIO BEFORE PIVOTING AND DIGGING INTO THE GREAT
LAKES REGION. THE SYSTEM BECOMES OCCLUDED THURSDAY WITH DRIER AIR
MOVING INTO NEBRASKA SO NOT EXPECTING A LOT OF PRECIPITATION
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...HOWEVER A FURTHER SOUTHERN TRACK OF
THE SYSTEM MAY BRING MORE WRAP AROUND MOISTURE INTO THE AREA SO
COULD HAVE A HIGHER THREAT FOR RAIN. AT THIS TIME...A BLEND OF THE
MODELS WILL WORK FOR THE FORECAST TODAY.

&&

.AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY EVENING)
ISSUED AT 638 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

FOR THE KLBF TERMINAL...EXPECT SCATTERED TO BROKEN HIGH CLOUDINESS
THIS EVENING. SKIES WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR TUESDAY MORNING. WINDS
WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT...SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT
10 TO 20 KTS ON TUESDAY. FRO THE KVTN TERMINAL...EASTERLY WINDS
WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT...WHICH MAY LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MVFR
CIGS AON 1500 FT AGL OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. SKIES WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR
BY LATE MORNING TUESDAY WITH CIGS AON 25000 FT AGL BY TUES
AFTERNOON.

&&

.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...TAYLOR
LONG TERM...BROOKS
AVIATION...CLB

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 4:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
438 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-172145-
SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN-
GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON-
LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER-
WESTERN CHERRY-
438 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014 /338 PM MDT MON JUN 16 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...GENERALLY
ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM GORDON TO MULLEN TO NORTH PLATTE.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. A FEW
TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN ADDITION TO THE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS FROM BROKEN BOW TO BASSETT AND POINTS NORTHEAST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE IN PLACE WEDNESDAY INTO
THURSDAY...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE SEVERE THREAT
WILL BE DETERMINED CLOSER TO THE EVENT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

&&

GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)

TAYLOR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
617 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0617 PM     HAIL             TAYLOR                  41.77N 99.38W
06/16/2014  E1.25 INCH       LOUP               NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

MARTIN

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
626 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0624 PM     TORNADO          4 N SARGENT             41.70N 99.37W
06/16/2014                   CUSTER             NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:40 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
640 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0639 PM     TORNADO          3 W BURWELL             41.78N 99.19W
06/16/2014                   GARFIELD           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TORNADO ON THE GROUND 3 MILES WEST OF BURWELL.

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:05 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
705 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0705 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     8 N BURWELL             41.90N 99.13W
06/16/2014                   GARFIELD           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SNIVELY

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:06 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
706 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0705 PM     HAIL             10 N BURWELL            41.92N 99.13W
06/16/2014  M1.00 INCH       GARFIELD           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SNIVELY

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:17 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
717 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     TORNADO          1 NE BURWELL            41.79N 99.12W
06/16/2014                   GARFIELD           NE   911 CALL CENTER

&&

SNIVELY

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), 00:00Z

0.5 hours before the tornado, 158 km from the path. June 17, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2981 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4
0-3 km lapse rate: 8.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), 12:00Z

11.5 hours after it, 158 km from the path. June 17, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -210 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 1315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1
0-3 km lapse rate: 3.9 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Ord/Sharp Field (ODX), 23 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:00 UTC

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:28 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 16, 2014

35 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 16	3:38 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton, NE	1.3	100
June 16	3:42 PM CDT	EF4	Stanton, NE	12.1	400			$2.0 million
June 16	3:43 PM CDT	EF0	Lyon, IA	0.2	50
June 16	4:00 PM CDT	EF4	Stanton, NE	23.9	500	1	20	$14 million
June 16	4:13 PM CDT	EF4	Stanton, NE	11.5	500	1		$1.1 million
June 16	4:40 PM CDT	EF4	Wayne, NE	15.8	530			$3.0 million
June 16	5:41 PM CDT	EF0	Dakota, NE	0.3	50
June 16	5:44 PM CDT	EF0	Pocahontas, IA	6.1	250
June 16	6:22 PM CDT	EF0	Humboldt, IA	4.6	50
June 16	6:24 PM CDT	EF0	Custer, NE	0.2	40
June 16	6:35 PM CDT	EF1	Garfield, NE	2.4	400			$15,000
June 16	6:48 PM CDT	EF1	Cerro Gordo, IA	3.0	110			$50,000
June 16	6:52 PM CDT	EF1	Wright, IA	2.6	175			$27,000
June 16	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Cerro Gordo, IA	1.1	40			$5,000
June 16	7:01 PM CDT	EF2	Garfield, NE	5.2	500			$100,000
June 16	7:20 PM CDT	EF2	Garfield, NE	1.6	700			$100,000
June 16	7:28 PM CDT	EF2	Garfield, NE	0.3	400			$5,000
June 16	7:39 PM CDT	EF1	Butler, IA	4.7	100			$200,000
June 16	7:45 PM CDT	EF0	Butler, IA	1.7	150			$400,000
June 16	7:52 PM CDT	EF1	Butler, IA	2.1	120			$200,000
June 16	8:12 PM CDT	EF0	Bremer, IA	2.0	75
June 16	8:23 PM MDT	EF0	Stark, ND	1.4	25
June 16	9:30 PM CDT	EF1	Buchanan, IA	1.3	50			$50,000
June 16	9:33 PM CDT	EF1	Delaware, IA	12.6	50			$100,000
June 16	10:05 PM CDT	EF0	Benton, IA	0.1	30
June 16	10:45 PM CDT	EF2	Grant, WI	3.8	100		5	$21 million
June 16	10:49 PM CDT	EF1	Grant, WI	0.5	25			$540,000
June 16	11:00 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette, WI	1.2	50			$33,000
June 16	11:00 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette, WI	4.3	200			$1.5 million
June 16	11:10 PM CDT	EF1	Iowa, WI	0.4	100			$20,000
June 16	11:36 PM CDT	EF1	Green, WI	0.5	125			$200,000
June 16	11:36 PM CDT	EF1	Green, WI	0.4	125			$50,000
June 16	12:08 AM CDT	EF3	Dane, WI	1.0	100			$14 million
June 16	12:15 AM CDT	EF2	Dane, WI	0.2	200			$5.0 million
June 16	12:21 AM CDT	EF1	Dane, WI	1.5	300			$300,000

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.