GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The National Weather Service has confirmed eight tornados tore through Northeast Wisconsin one week ago.
The damage has been widespread. NWS says high straight-line winds are also to blame.
An EF1 tornado ripped through parts of Seymour on Wednesday. Leaving behind exposed roofs, torn grain bins, and fallen trees.
“The tree split right down the middle and it’s going to come apart. This one had to come down. We didn’t want it to land on top of the house,” said Seymour resident David Sass.
Sass says he’s lucky he can call reinforcements to help him take care of the little damage on his property.
“My cousin Tom rented a cherry picker so he could get up on the tree and cut the whole thing down,” said Sass.
A week after the storm, the National Weather Service says they’re not sending out any more survey crews, they say most of the debris and damage has been cleaned up.
“So when all of the damage starts getting removed, that’s kind of our clues that are leaving the scene if you will,” said Kurt Kotenberg, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Green Bay.
Kotenberg says it seems like Northeast Wisconsin battled either tornados or straight-line winds.
He says the survey team had to look at the aftermath to figure out which it was.
“You can notice the trees are pretty much obliterated, and in every direction so this tells me this is tornadic,” said Kotenberg, “So this would be a point where we would say straight-line wind with this, the trees are all going the same direction,”
North of Seymour, the Silver Cliff Tornado in Marinette County was classified as an EF2.
Kotenberg says it’s hard to determine an EF1 and EF2 tornado unless you look at what’s left.
“This was the silver cliff area, unfortunately completely whipped off its foundation, and this was the Seymour area. This house clearly had a lot of roof damage to it,” said Kotenberg.
NWS is shocked there weren’t any deaths or injuries.
Sass says there’s still more to do, but since the Seymour community has rallied together, it will get done.
The National Weather Service in Green Bay says it’s finalizing the strength of each of the tornadoes.
It will soon release the paths and time on the ground.
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