Survey team says Columbia County storm included tornado
WYOCENA, Wis. (AP) — About 100 volunteers worked Saturday to help clean up the area near the Columbia County village of Wyocena where a tornado touched down Friday, officials said.
Patrick Beghin, director of Columbia County Emergency Management, said the tornado destroyed about five farm buildings and left four homes with "varying degrees of damage."
A National Weather Service survey team headed by meteorologists Rusty Kapela and Jeff Craven of the agency’s Sullivan office said its preliminary results indicate the twister had winds of 100 mph and touched down in a path four miles long and 50 to 75 yards wide from southwest of Wyocena to east of Wyocena.
The tornado which the weather service said touched downed down for six minutes shortly before 5:30 p.m. was listed as an EF1 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which ranges from zero at the low end to five at the high end.
The survey team was also to inspect other areas in Columbia County, and in Green Lake and Fond du Lac County, to determine whether the tornado may have touched down briefly elsewhere.
No people were reported hurt, but the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department said two horses sustained minor injuries when a barn collapsed.
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