The severe weather event that struck our state last week dropped over a dozen confirmed tornadoes, as well as straight-line wind gusts topping 80 mph.

What You Need To Know

  • The National Weather Service confirms 12 tornadoes struck

  • Five were rated an EF-0, nine were rated EF-1

  • There were no injuries and no deaths, thankfully

The massive line of storms that raked across the state Wednesday night was one for the record books. Meteorologists from the National Weather Service have completed their field surveys and confirm that 14 tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin last week.

Two of the tornadoes occurred in northern Wisconsin, while the rest happened in the southern part of the state.

Both the New Richmond tornado and the one north of Wausau (near Pine River) were rated EF-1 with wind speeds around 90 mph.

In southern Wisconsin, seven of the tornadoes were EF-1 and the other give were rated EF-0.

This goes down as the most tornadoes to hit southern Wisconsin in a single event since 2005.

Peak wind speeds ranged from 75 mph to 105 mph. The biggest tornado was the one near Dousman, which had an estimated width of 200 yards (that's two football fields sitting end-to-end).

On top of all that, these tornadoes occurred between 12:30 a.m. and 1:45 a.m., while many people were sleeping. Thankfully, due to all of the advanced notice about the weather--and the warnings in place--there were no injuries and no deaths.

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