Power Outage in Prairie Du Chien, WI

The automated weather observing equipment at the Prairie du Chien airport measured a 66 mph wind gust. Trees and power lines were blown down in parts of the city.

A tree was blown down onto a power line north of Prairie du Chien.

Several hangars and vintage World War II plane were damaged at the Prairie du Chien airport. Numerous trees and power lines were damaged or blown down across the city.

Multiple power poles were snapped off along State Highway 27 just east of Prairie du Chien.

Trees and power lines were blown down in Prairie du Chien.

North winds between 25 and 35 mph with higher gusts, created a period of blizzard conditions across Crawford County, especially on the ridge tops and higher terrain, during the morning and afternoon of the 20th. As a result of the blizzard, roads were closed, vehicles became trapped in the snow, some power outages occurred and all schools in the county were closed. The highest reported snow total was 13.9 inches in Prairie du Chien.

Trees and power lines were blown down across Prairie du Chien.

State Highway 27 was reported to be impassable, a few accidents occurred and power lines were down across parts of the county.

Trees were blown down over various parts of the county, including one large Cottonwood tree that fell onto a vehicle and injured the driver. Some of these downed trees brought down power lines leading to power outages in the cities of Soldiers Grove and Gays Mills. Home siding and roof damage was also reported in the county. An amateur radio operator reported a 70 mph peak wind gust near Mt.Sterling at 4:18 p.m. CST (5:18 p.m. CDT) late in the event on October 27th. On the other hand, a peak wind gust of 64 mph was reported on ridge tops several miles northeast of Prairie du Chien early in the event, around 1:20 p.m. CST (2:20 p.m. CDT) on October 26th. At the Prairie du Chien airport, wind gusts topped at 48 mph during the early afternoon hours of October 27th. The amount of hours with such high wind was one of the unusual things about this storm.

Scattered thunderstorms moved across portions of southwest Wisconsin during the evening of August 13th. Some of these storms became strong enough to produce damaging winds in Prairie du Chien (Crawford County). The automated weather observing equipment at the airport measured a 66 mph wind gust and trees and power lines were blown down across the city.

A couple rounds of thunderstorms swept across western Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening of May 25th. These storms primarily produced large hail with some occasional damaging winds. The largest reported hail size was golf ball sized in Eleva (Trempealeau County). Most of the damaging wind reports were limited to Crawford County where trees and power lines were blown down between Ferryville and Lynxville and near Prairie du Chien.

Severe thunderstorms developed rapidly during the late morning and afternoon along and behind a slow moving cold front. These thunderstorms initially developed over Minnesota, moved southeast into northeast Iowa before tracking across southwest Wisconsin where they produced some wind damage. Trees and power lines were blown down from Ferryville (Crawford County) east through Richland Center (Richland County) including a 72 mph gust in Prairie du Chien (Crawford County).

A cold front moved east across western Wisconsin during the late afternoon and evening hours of June 1st. This allowed scattered thunderstorms to develop and track across portions of western Wisconsin. The thunderstorms knocked down a tree onto power lines and caused power outages in the city of Thorp (Clark County) and hail damaged apple trees on a farm in Crawford County.

Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked down trees and power lines.

An amateur radio operator measured wind gusts of 65 mph, which knocked down some trees and power lines.

60 mph winds blew down several trees, knocked down power lines and blew a boat parked in a driveway out into a street.