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2016 tornadoes in Wisconsin

16 tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin in 2016, 24 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2015 2017 The whole country in 2016

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 mph
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.

Every tornado in Wisconsin in 2016

May 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	5:35 PM CDT	EF1	Fond du Lac	4.5	330			$100,000

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	7:00 PM CDT	EF0	Shawano	0.0	50

June 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 10	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Outagamie	1.4	25

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	6:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Calumet	0.7	25

June 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 26	2:30 AM CDT	EF1	Waupaca	2.7	100			$200,000

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	7:16 PM CDT	EF0	Marathon	0.0	50			$5,000

July 5 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 5	8:35 PM CDT	EF0	Pierce	0.3	25
July 5	8:48 PM CDT	EF1	Pepin	3.3	100	$500,000
July 5	9:10 PM CDT	EF1	Buffalo	0.7	100	$260,000
July 5	9:13 PM CDT	EF1	Buffalo	0.5	100	$235,000
July 5	10:31 PM CDT	EF0	Vernon	0.8	50	$5,000

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	11:41 PM CDT	EF1	Iron to MI	2.3	100			$50,000

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	2:05 AM CDT	EF0	Chippewa	0.5	300			$25,000

July 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	3:55 PM CDT	EF0	Barron	0.2	25			$50,000

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	11:20 AM CDT	EF1	Marathon	4.3	250			$100,000

August 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 20	10:03 AM CDT	EF0	Kewaunee	0.7	125			$25,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Wisconsin since 1950 Warnings in force in Wisconsin The live radar over Wisconsin

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.