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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Luck, WI

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Luck, Wisconsin since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 76 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 3 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
76

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
3

8 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Luck

By decade

  • 2020s4
  • 2010s15
  • 2000s18(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s11
  • 1980s6
  • 1970s3
  • 1960s14
  • 1950s5(2 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Luck, Wisconsin
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
May 21, 1957F420 mi9.2 mi0 / 2
Jun 18, 2001F315 mi34 mi2 / 16
Jun 23, 1952F34 mi18.2 mi2 / 6
May 10, 1953F212 mi105.7 mi4 / 27
Jun 17, 2010EF221 mi7.82 mi0 / 2
Jul 22, 1967F221 mi49.1 mi0 / 6
Jun 12, 1967F223 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jul 10, 1966F218 mi2 mi0 / 2
May 5, 1965F219 mi14.3 mi0 / 0
May 5, 1965F218 mi4.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 18, 2024EF112 mi4.99 mi0 / 0
Jul 28, 2019EF123 mi8.16 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 76, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Luck while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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