National Weather Service said not less than 4 tornadoes took place in southeastern Wisconsin early Thursday as a line of intense storms swept across the state.
EF1 Tornado
Extensive disruption close to Concord in Jefferson County was prompted by an EF1 tornado, which occurred about 1:15 a.m. Thursday, said a weather service storm damage survey team. Wind speeds of EF1 tornado are 86 to 110 mph.
The deputy chief of the Ixonia Fire Department, Josh Nettesheim, who answered the emergency calls in Concord, revealed homes near Highway E and West River Drive were damaged. Nettesheim said the roof of one home was partially blown off and another moved off its foundation and a wall holding up the second floor was lost.
Not less than eight people were displaced, but there were no report of any injury, Nettesheim said it is "miraculous."
He said "the warning notifications did their job. That helped out a lot. It's pretty miraculous nobody got hurt."
EF-0 Tornado
A second tornado took place in Waukesha County about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, storm survey teams confirmed. The tornado took place close to Highway D and Townline Road, southeast of Wales and southwest of Waukesha, the weather service said.
The rate of that tornado was EF-0, which generally has wind speeds of about 65 to 85 mph.
Around 1:05 a.m another EF-0 tornado occured. Thursday near Watertown. The National Weather Service reported that there were some damages along Hilltop Road north of Highway A.
The Weather Service made a confirmation that a fourth tornado touched down south of Dousman close to a cemetery on Highway Z late Thursday. This was an EF1 tornado that moved 2.19 miles with up to 100 mph winds.
In Wisconsin, most tornadoes are either EF1 or EF0. The storms led to extensive damage as they traveled through southern Wisconsin early Thursday. A meteorologist at the weather service office in Sullivan, Mark Gehring said: "It packed a good punch"
Effects of the Tornado
There were no urgent reports of injuries in the state late Wednesday and early Thursday that was linked to the storms that propelled across Wisconsin.
The National Weather Service got reports of so many homes and buildings damaged along County Road E close to Concord in Jefferson County around 1:15 a.m., just north of I-94. Fallen power lines and debris were also reported to be blocking County Road F nearby.
In concurrence, the storm also pulled down some large trees, took the roof off a storage shed, and made a flag pole fall, as per a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer at the site of the incident Thursday morning.
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