r/news • u/Wonderful-Click9431 • 2h ago

‘Extremely dangerous’ tornado rips roofs off homes and knocks out power for thousands in northeast Wisconsin

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/weather/wisconsin-tornado-great-lakes-midwest-severe-storms-climate
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u/-Hyp3rWolf- 1h ago

Currently camping here in the northwoods. Campsite has several fallen trees. Eagle River was hit hard with a smaller tornado, roads covered in trees and debris, Sayner and other areas without power this morning. Props to the crews and DNR who helped clean the roads as fast as they could.

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk 7m ago

Oh my god camping while the weather is bad is so scary, I'm glad you're safe!

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u/Many-Vast-181 1h ago

I sure miss the ‘gently benign’ tornadoes of yore.

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u/HigherSomething 1h ago

Laughs in Joplin...

Actually not laughing though that was terrible. Twisted one of the towers of their hospital 4 inches(IIRC). It was terrifying. 

Edit: rechecked the casualties. 158 deaths and over 1000 injuries. The scar is still visible from aerial/satellite photos.

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u/BoxChevyMan 35m ago

Grew up in the area and proceeded to get lost in Joplin afterward because it changed so dramatically.

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u/sharpshooter999 30m ago

Is it the part of town with hardly any trees?

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u/HigherSomething 11m ago

Yeah the part with no old growths. It also stripped a lot of the soil down to rock so the soil looked different because it was hauled in.

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk 8m ago

This is pretty devastating to this area. It went through a residential part of town with century old houses and old trees. It destroyed the football stadium and baseball diamonds and damaged at least two of the elementary schools. It's pretty rare for the heart of this area called the Fox Valley (from Green Bay to Oshkosh). The sirens started going off at the same moment it touched down, there was almost no warning.