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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today in the Central U.S.

A storm system will track from the southern Plains to the Upper Midwest today. Severe thunderstorms are expected from east Texas into far southeast Iowa and Illinois. A strong tornado and damaging wind potential will exist from central Arkansas into central Missouri. Heavy to excessive rainfall from eastern Texas into the Midwest states may bring new or renewed areas of flooding. Read More >

Overview

Two rounds of severe storms raced across portions of central and northern Wisconsin on April 9th and April 10th.  The first round of storms affected northern Wisconsin between about 5 pm CDT and 8 pm CDT producing hail up to 1 inch in diameter. The second and more intense round of storms raced across central and north-central Wisconsin between about 1130 pm CDT April 9th and 3 am CDT April 10th producing hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter, straight line wind damage and at least one tornado. 

The hardest hit area was just west of Wausau where a brief tornado touched down about 6 miles WNW of town.  The tornado caused significant damage to two structures and minor damage to several others along its 1/2 mile path.  A preliminary NWS damage survey estimated maximum winds of 105 mph (EF1).

Microbursts (straight-line thunderstorm winds) produced significant wind damage near Minocqua in Oneida County and near Marshfield in northern Wood County. Winds were estimated over 75 mph in these storms.

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