Wisconsin’s first recorded February tornado hits south of capital
A rare winter tornado churned through southern Wisconsin on Thursday, snapping power poles, downing large trees and damaging homes.
A rare winter tornado churned through southern Wisconsin on Thursday, snapping power poles, downing large trees and damaging homes.
It was the state’s first recorded tornado in the month of February, according to Taylor Patterson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Milwaukee. Records date back to 1948.
“This is a very unusual time of year for Wisconsin to be getting tornadoes,” Patterson said. “We were also unusually warm yesterday.”
Several thunderstorms also traveled across Iowa and Illinois on Thursday, dropping hailstones that ranged from the size of peas to the size of ping pong balls. A tornado developed in northern Illinois during this extreme weather event, too.
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