Lake Tomahawk, WI Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
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The chance of earthquake damage in Lake Tomahawk is about the same as Wisconsin average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Lake Tomahawk is much lower than Wisconsin average and is lower than the national average.
Earthquake Index, #365
| Lake Tomahawk, WI | 0.00 |
| Wisconsin | 0.00 |
| U.S. | 1.81 |
The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.
Volcano Index, #1
| Lake Tomahawk, WI | 0.0000 |
| Wisconsin | 0.0000 |
| U.S. | 0.0023 |
The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.
Tornado Index, #767
| Lake Tomahawk, WI | 70.82 |
| Wisconsin | 153.98 |
| U.S. | 136.45 |
The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.
Other Weather Extremes Events
A total of 1,080 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Lake Tomahawk, WI were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:
| Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count |
| Avalanche: | 0 | Blizzard: | 0 | Cold: | 0 | Dense Fog: | 0 | Drought: | 0 |
| Dust Storm: | 0 | Flood: | 18 | Hail: | 409 | Heat: | 0 | Heavy Snow: | 4 |
| High Surf: | 0 | Hurricane: | 0 | Ice Storm: | 0 | Landslide: | 0 | Strong Wind: | 1 |
| Thunderstorm Winds: | 581 | Tropical Storm: | 0 | Wildfire: | 0 | Winter Storm: | 0 | Winter Weather: | 0 |
| Other: | 67 | ||||||||
Volcanos Nearby
No volcano is found in or near Lake Tomahawk, WI.
Historical Earthquake Events
No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Lake Tomahawk, WI.
No historical earthquake events found in or near Lake Tomahawk, WI.
Historical Tornado Events
A total of 20 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Lake Tomahawk, WI.
| Distance (miles) | Date | Magnitude | Start Lat/Log | End Lat/Log | Length | Width | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage | Crop Damage | Affected County |
| 5.9 | 1986-07-04 | 2 | 45°44'N / 89°38'W | 1.50 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Oneida | |
| 7.3 | 1984-04-27 | 3 | 45°40'N / 89°49'W | 45°54'N / 89°38'W | 16.00 Miles | 87 Yards | 1 | 5 | 25.0M | 0 | Oneida |
| 8.7 | 1985-06-08 | 3 | 45°48'N / 90°05'W | 45°34'N / 89°06'W | 47.00 Miles | 2640 Yards | 2 | 16 | 25.0M | 0 | Oneida |
| 12.0 | 1984-04-27 | 3 | 45°54'N / 89°38'W | 46°04'N / 89°30'W | 13.00 Miles | 87 Yards | 0 | 3 | 25.0M | 0 | Vilas |
| 14.0 | 1950-06-25 | 4 | 45°35'N / 89°35'W | 45°40'N / 89°20'W | 13.10 Miles | 880 Yards | 2 | 12 | 250K | 0 | Oneida |
| 16.0 | 1991-06-27 | 2 | 45°47'N / 89°58'W | 45°52'N / 89°51'W | 6.00 Miles | 400 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Oneida |
| 19.7 | 1969-06-26 | 2 | 45°57'N / 89°52'W | 46°14'N / 89°25'W | 28.90 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Vilas |
| 21.0 | 1981-06-13 | 2 | 45°48'N / 89°10'W | 45°47'N / 89°07'W | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Oneida | ||
| 27.5 | 2002-09-30 | 2 | 45°28'N / 89°54'W | 45°28'N / 89°50'W | 3.00 Miles | 250 Yards | 0 | 0 | 75K | 0 | Lincoln |
| Brief Description: Severe thunderstorms developed in unstable air in the vicinity of an east to west warm front that stretched across northern Wisconsin. These storms produced large hail, wind damage and two tornadoes. Hail to golf ball size covered the ground in the Minocqua area (Oneida co.) and golf ball to tennis ball size hail fell from Arbor Vitae (Vilas co.) to St. Germain (Vilas co.). The most significant wind damage was in southern Oneida county. In the Woodboro area (Oneida co.) a tree that was downed by high winds smashed a pickup truck. A tornado touched down in southeast Florence county. It destroyed a pole barn, a garage that was under construction and 6 to 10 outbuildings in its path. It caused minor damage to a farm home and downed 150 to 250 trees and power lines, causing numerous power outages. The tornado tracked east-northeast across the Menominee river into upper Michigan where it continued to do damage. Another tornado that touched down 8 miles west of Tomahawk (Lincoln co.) did significant damage, uprooting or snapping off thousands of trees along its path. A house in the path of the tornado sustained major structural damage. All outbuildings on the property were destroyed, a camping trailer was thrown 300 feet and a car was thrown into a tree, coming to rest at least 15 feet above the ground. Two barns were also destroyed. The storms knocked out power to around 3,000 customers in the Tomahawk area (Lincoln co.) and about 600 customers in the Rhinelander and Crandon areas. | |||||||||||
| 33.8 | 1985-06-08 | 3 | 45°56'N / 90°28'W | 45°48'N / 90°05'W | 21.00 Miles | 2640 Yards | 0 | 26 | 25.0M | 0 | Price |
| 34.1 | 1958-07-14 | 2 | 46°10'N / 90°04'W | 1.50 Miles | 50 Yards | 0 | 0 | 3K | 0 | Iron | |
| 34.7 | 1950-06-25 | 2 | 45°34'N / 90°18'W | 45°34'N / 90°07'W | 8.40 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Price |
| 36.7 | 1972-09-20 | 2 | 45°40'N / 90°27'W | 45°45'N / 90°12'W | 13.10 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Price |
| 40.7 | 1994-05-30 | 2 | 45°33'N / 88°56'W | 45°35'N / 88°41'W | 12.00 Miles | 800 Yards | 0 | 3 | 5.0M | 50K | Forest |
| Brief Description: Severe thunderstorms raked west-central and northern Wisconsin with violent damaging winds up to 61 mph, hail up to tennis ball-size, and two tornadoes. A tornado set down just east of Woodville in St Croix County damaging eight farm dwellings and structures along its one-mile path causing $55,000 damage. Another tornado cut a 12-mile path from just southwest of Crandon to just north of Laona in Forest County causing $1 million damage. It destroyed three mobile homes, damaged or destroyed 25 homes and leveled 600 acres of timber. Three people were injured in a mobile home that was destroyed by the tornado. Widespread hail up to tennis ball-size fell over the Rhinelander area damaging hundreds of vehicles as well as roofs and windows. A severe thunderstorm with damaging winds knocked down about 3,000 trees and damaged several homes and cabins seven miles southeast of Seeley, Sawyer County. | |||||||||||
| 42.2 | 1994-04-26 | 2 | 45°24'N / 90°22'W | 45°34'N / 90°16'W | 12.00 Miles | 1200 Yards | 0 | 0 | 500K | 500K | Price |
| Brief Description: Severe thunderstorm winds caused property damage just north of Downing, Dunn County. A tornado skipped along a 12-mile path in Price County from four miles southwest of Ogema to two miles northeast of Prentice. Along its path, the tornado damaged a construction company shed, knocked a garage against a home, rolled a large mobile home onto its top, demolished a cabin trailer and barn, and damaged a farm home. | |||||||||||
| 43.4 | 1968-06-30 | 2 | 45°40'N / 88°42'W | 1.00 Mile | 200 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Forest | |
| 44.4 | 1961-08-14 | 2 | 46°00'N / 90°31'W | 45°58'N / 90°25'W | 4.50 Miles | 400 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Ashland |
| 44.4 | 1984-04-27 | 2 | 45°12'N / 89°13'W | 45°16'N / 89°07'W | 7.50 Miles | 7 Yards | 0 | 1 | 2.5M | 0 | Langlade |
| 45.2 | 1962-07-24 | 2 | 45°12'N / 89°55'W | 1.00 Mile | 50 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Lincoln | |
| 49.7 | 1997-07-16 | 2 | 45°07'N / 89°28'W | 45°04'N / 89°31'W | 1.40 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 500K | 25K | Lincoln |
| Brief Description: Severe thunderstorms affected much of northern, central and east-central Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening of July 16 with tornadoes, downburst winds and large hail. Millions of dollars in damage resulted from the biggest severe weather outbreak to affect the region in years. The storms began to develop early in the afternoon across north-central Wisconsin. Hail the size of baseballs fell in Minocqua (Oneida co.), damaging nearly 200 vehicles. As those storms moved southeast and weakened, a new supercell thunderstorm developed over Lincoln county. This new storm produced wind damage in Tomahawk and softball size hail northeast of Merrill. About 20 minutes later, a tornado developed in southeast Lincoln county and moved southeastward into Marathon county. This tornado, rated F2, was on the ground for more than three miles. It damaged several homes, vehicles and silos, and destroyed numerous barns, sheds and crops. Twenty head of dairy cattle were killed or had to be destroyed. As the tornadic supercell moved southeast, it produced two other weak tornadoes. Total damage to crops and property from five tornadoes, hail and straight-line winds in Marathon county alone topped $10 million. Another supercell thunderstorm produced a downburst swath of damage over three miles wide and 14 miles long from southeast Langlade county, through western Menominee county, into extreme north-central Shawano county. Menominee county was especially hard hit, as tens of thousands of trees were felled in the heavily forested county. Authorities estimated that nearly 25 million board feet of lumber was on the ground; it was hoped that much of it was going to be salvaged. At the height of the storm, winds were estimated to be near 100 mph. As the storm weakened and moved into north-central Shawano county, a 70 mph wind gust was measured near Morgan. Another storm in western Shawano county produced a downburst which downed trees across the city of Wittenberg. Part of a roof was blown off an apartment building in the downtown area, and several houses and businesses sustained damage from the fallen trees. A Wittenberg man was injured by flying glass. Lightning set a house on fire, destroying the second story, in the township of Germania. Another storm struck Waupaca county, producing high winds. A power pole fell and hit a car in New London, injuring the driver. Shortly after 530 pm, a supercell thunderstorm produced numerous wind gusts over 65 mph across the Fox Valley, blowing over many trees, damaging buildings and causing a fatality. A 36 year-old male was killed when a tree fell on his minivan in Oshkosh (Winnebago co.). His young daughter was uninjured in the accident. A wind gust to 82 mph was measured in Appleton (Outagamie co.), and a gust to 67 mph was recorded in Oshkosh. Thunderstorms over Waushara county produced flooding rains, a brief tornado, strong winds and hail. Over five inches of rain fell in only three hours near Hancock, producing some basement and street flooding. A brief tornado also touched down in an open field in Hancock. Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down in Wautoma. A thunderstorm knocked trees and power lines down in Kiel (Calumet/Manitowoc co.), and damaged seven tents at a fair in Cleveland (Manitowoc co.). | |||||||||||
* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.