At least 7 tornados touched down Thursday in Wisconsin, including 4 in Dodge County

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17-05-2025

The National Weather Service confirmed at least seven tornados touched down in Wisconsin May 15, including four in Dodge County.
Damage was reported in Juneau and Mayville about 50 miles northwest of Milwaukee as two EF2 tornados with peak winds of about 120 miles per hour struck.
'Those are considered strong tornados,' Mark Gehring, of the Milwaukee area National Weather Service office, said May 16. 'That's pretty serious."
One touched down west of Juneau about 5:42 p.m. May 15, and traveled 9.2 miles ending just east of Horicon.
Another touched down near Mayville about 5:59 p.m. and traveled five miles.
Two EF1 tornados also were reported in the area.
'They pack a punch, too,' Gehring said.
Both had windspeeds of about 95 miles per hour and one caused damage to the Dodge County Airport. That one touched down about two miles east of Juneau and traveled about four miles.
Another one touched down near Lomira and traveled about a half-mile.
In far western Wisconsin, one tornado came with the first round of storms that morning. It was rated as an EF2 with windspeeds up to 135 miles per hour.
The tornado touched down in St. Croix County just east of Minneapolis about 10:27 a.m. and traveled about four miles in seven minutes before dissipating.
Hail up to 4 inches in diameter was also associated with this storm, as well as 100 mile-per-hour winds that caused damages in several counties in western Wisconsin.
A second storm in the afternoon produced two more tornados in Clark County in central Wisconsin.
An EF1 with windspeeds up to 110 miles per hour touched down near Christie about 4:47 p.m. and traveled about a half-mile for a minute. It snapped the trunks of a few large trees, according to the National Weather Service.
And an EF0 with windspeeds up to 85 miles per hour touched down near Loyal about 4:55 p.m. and traveled 2.3 miles in three minutes. Multiple trees were damaged and it it removed a portion of the roof of a farm building, the weather service said.
Gehring said the May 16 storms did not produce any tornados in Wisconsin, but did cause wind downbursts of about 58 miles per hour causing damage to some trees.
'There really wasn't a tornado threat today,' he said.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 7 tornados touched down in Wisconsin, National Weather Service says