MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – 22 tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin last year, and only four took place outside the month of June.
The National Weather Service released an update this week on the state’s 2014 tornadoes.
The total was one short of the state’s annual average of 23 twisters.
Last year’s strongest was an EF-3 tornado on June 17th that heavily damaged the Country View Elementary School in Verona. At least 30 homes also had major damage from that storm.
The EF-3 severity was slightly above the mid-range in a 0 to 5 rating system. The Verona twister was only on the ground for a few minutes, with estimated wind speeds of 136 miles an hour.
According to the weather service, 17 of last year’s 22 Wisconsin tornadoes landed in 5 south central and southwest counties — Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, and Grant. The others landed in Bayfield, Pierce, Dunn, Winnebago, and Outagamie counties.
The 2014 total was just over a-third of the record number of tornadoes for a one-year period in Wisconsin — 62 back in 2005.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
