Power Outage in Hayward, WI

Trees were downed across roads and power lines in Hayward.

Trees were down across roads throughout the Chippewa Flowage with power outages reported as well.

Trees and power lines were downed across western Sawyer County with the majority of reports coming from around Hayward.

Many large trees were reported down along with numerous power outages on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation.

Ice accumulations of a quarter of an inch were reported in a time period of around six to eight hours in the Hayward area at the beginning of the storm. Jump River Electrical Cooperative reported approximately 500 customers without power during the height of the storm due to downed lines from the ice and trees/branches falling onto lines.

Several trees and power lines were knocked down in the Northwoods Beach area.

A 12 diameter oak tree broke about 6' above its base. There were numerous smaller branches broken. The spotter lost power.

Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Power was out across Hayward as thunderstorms knocked trees into power lines.

There were many reports of trees down and tree limbs bringing down power lines across Hayward.

Numerous trees were blown down and uprooted, with power lines down across much of western Sawyer County.

Power was knocked out and numerous large trees were blown down.

Numerous trees were blown down and uprooted, with power lines down across much of western Sawyer County.

The strong wind gusts produced scattered power outages county-wide.

There was minor damage to the hangars and hangar roofs at the Hayward Airport. The power was out for 3 hours according to the airport manager.

Numerous trees and power lines down from just north of Hayward across Nelson Lake to the Bayfield county line.

Numerous trees and power lines down along Highway B between Highways A and S. Also, several trees were blown down Along highway B between highways S and W.

A warm front moved across Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin during the afternoon hours of the 2nd bringing a warm and moist airmass to the region. Thunderstorms developed during the evening hours ahead of a cold front pushing in from the west. These storms produced hail to around 1.5 inches in diameter and heavy rainfall leading to some minor ponding of water in spots. These storms also produced wind damage across Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn and Price counties as they moved to the east leaving trees and powerlines down in their wake.

A strong area of low pressure brought heavy snowfall and very strong winds to much of the Northland starting on Wednesday the 23rd and lingering into Thursday the 24th. Very strong frontogenesis occurred along a trowal axis that extended across much of northern Wisconsin west into Minnesota. Warm air advection caused temperatures across most of northwest Wisconsin to rise above freezing and produce mixed precipitation for several hours during the day. As the cold front gradually moved east, temperatures very quickly dropped and caused treacherous road conditions as mixed precipitation changed over to snow. Narrow bands of heavy snow set up over the Brainerd Lakes northeast towards the Iron Range during the early morning and early afternoon, and then translated east towards the Twin Ports, North Shore, and Interstate 35 corridor. The heavy snow bands coincided with the strong mid-level frontogenesis, which also produced very strong northwest winds that caused the widespread blizzard conditions. A few power outages were reported and widespread whiteout conditions made travel difficult if not impossible.||As the cold front swept rapidly eastward, bitterly cold air moved into the region and led to the development of a topographically-forced gravity wave during the night of the 23rd that dropped several more inches of snow from Two Harbors to Superior to Holyoke. The highest snowfall report was 13 inches of snow near Foxboro under this band. Further east, lake-effect snow continued into Thursday along the South Shore. Gile, Wisconsin, saw 18.5 inches of snow before lake-effect snow tapered off Thursday evening.

Two rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms occurred across Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer, and Price counties in northwest Wisconsin. A cold front moved through the area in the morning and triggered strong to severe storms, which produced hail up to dime size, wind damage, and heavy rain that contributed to flash flooding. The front stalled across the region by afternoon and produced more strong to severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorms produced hail from the size of peas to nickels, wind damage, and heavy rain that contributed to flash flooding. Several roads were flooded, including culvert washouts along with downed power lines. Disaster declarations due to the flooding were issued for the town of Emery in Price County, Sawyer County and the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe. In Price County, the total damage estimate from Wisconsin Emergency Management was $562,000. In Sawyer County, the total damage estimate was $504,000. In Washburn County, the damage estimate was $60,000. The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe had total damage estimated at $6,500.

Heavy rain and heavy snow caused flooding and power outages and closed schools. Roads and culverts were flooded. Some areas of northwest Wisconsin had as much as 6 to 8 inches of snowfall. Reports include 8 in Poplar and near Sand Bay, and 7 to 7.5 in Gile, Oulu, Stone Lake, and Lake Nebagamon.

Thunderstorms developed across northwest Wisconsin as a cold front moved through the region. The thunderstorms brought large hail. One of the hardest hit areas were within and near Hayward, WI and other parts of Sawyer County. There was a report of hailstones as large as 3 in diameter, or tea cup size, near New Post, WI. There were also reports of 2.5 diameter, or tennis ball size, hail in and near Hayward. There were nearly no reports of damaging winds with the storms, but one storm knocked over a tree onto a power line near Webster, WI.

An unusually strong storm system brought damaging winds to northeast Minnesota. The storm set record low pressure readings in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with the lowest pressure in Wisconsin set at Superior. The counterclockwise flow around the system brought very gusty southwest winds which brought down trees and power across northwest Wisconsin. There was also some structural damage reported. Winds generally gusted from 40 to 50 mph, with some areas gusting over 50 mph. Devils Island in the Apostle Islands had a peak wind gust of 61 mph.

A powerful late season winter storm hit northwestern Wisconsin, producing heavy wet snow. There were localized blizzard conditions along the south shore and head of Lake Superior. Six to 14 inches of snow fell, with the heaviest amounts from Siren to Spooner. Four inches or less fell from Phillips and points south. Wind gusts over 40 mph were common across much of northwestern Wisconsin, causing numerous power outages from falling trees. Approximately 500 trees were blown down in Bayfield County in the town of Bell. Waves were 15 feet or more on Lake Superior. Many schools and businesses were closed on the 11th.

A powerful storm system moved through the upper midwest in late February, and brought heavy snow to portions of northwest Wisconsin. The snow began falling during the evening of the 24th, with some ice and sleet mixed in at the beginning. The heaviest snow fell during the morning of the 25th. Blizzard conditions were felt during the early morning hours of the 25th, as winds gusted to over 40 mph along the south shore of Lake Superior from the Bayfield Peninsula to Superior. On the back side of the low, winds turned northerly, with lake effect snow continuing across the south shore of Lake Superior. The snow finally ended during the evening of the 25th. Snow totals ranged from 6 to 10 inches, with the heaviest occuring over the Bayfield Peninsula, over towards Superior, as well as the upper St. Croix River Valley.

Strong gradient winds toppled trees and caused power outages across northwestern Wisconsin.

A mixture of sleet and freezing rain fell, causing an icy glaze up to 1/2" thick to accumulate on roads, trees and power lines. The winds were also very strong with the Duluth/Superior Harbor recording sustained winds of 35 to 50 mph. The strong winds pushed ice into the harbor where a ship became icebound for several hours in the Superior Entry. Numerous trees and power lines were downed.

A large winter storm moved through the western Great Lakes region, bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to northwestern Wisconsin in two waves over a period of a day and a half. Snowfall totals generally ranged from a half a foot to a foot and a half, with a maximum of 20 inches in northeastern Douglas County. The freezing rain resulted in over 1/4 inch of inch accumulation on roads, trees, and power lines in Ashland, Iron, and Price Counties from the evening of the 24th through the early morning of the 25th.