National Weather Service Surveying Damage Statewide

MADISON, Wis (CIVIC MEDIA) – Over 30 tornado warnings were issued on Thursday as a severe weather outbreak swept across the state, causing damage.

Video Credit to Rikki Van Dyk of New Richmond.

The National Weather Service offices are out surveying the damage Friday.

National Weather Service (NWS) Twin Cities is looking at St. Croix County, where a tornado was reported to be seen on the ground, with captured photo and video depicting it near the town of Roberts, headed towards New Richmond. The tornado’s potential path is shown in the NWS’s map here, with the red circles indicating reports of it seen.

The skies were green just 45 minutes outside of Minneapolis. Meanwhile in Altoona, near Eau Claire, softball-sized hail came crashing through glass, breaking windshields on cars.

NWS Green Bay is in Marathon County in the Rib Falls area surveying damage, which is just about 20 miles west of Wausau.

NWS in La Crosse is in Clark County today is looking at three to four different spots twisters may have struck. Loyal and Colby are a couple areas being surveyed.

Ping pong ball-sized hail was reported near there as well as Stevens Point, where a strong rotation was seen near Plover in Plainfield, Bancroft and Keene.

The NWS Milwaukee is in Juneau and Mayville in Columbia County, which is about an hour away from downtown Milwaukee. Significant destruction occurred there. Mayville was under a shelter in place.

Before Thursday, the state had seen seven tornadoes this year, all of which appeared on April 28. Three of them were rated EF-1’s, and four were EF-0. EF-1 tornadoes have winds gusts of 86 to 110 mph. It’s based on the Enhanced Fujita Scale damage indicators, so a tornado is actually rated on the damage it does. The NWS’s collective effort to measure the scope of damage could take some time. The National Weather Service offices are still planning to look at more areas possibly hit on Saturday, too.