NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pardeeville, WI

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

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated October 26, 2026

1 tropical system has passed within 75 miles of Pardeeville, Wisconsin since 1851, 0 of them at hurricane strength; the most recent was an unnamed storm in 1900. Since 1950, 127 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 10 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes: 0
Tropical storms: 1
Tornadoes: 127
EF3 or stronger: 10

What the records show for Pardeeville

None of the 1 tropical systems was at hurricane strength as it passed Pardeeville; the strongest was an unnamed storm in 1900, a tropical storm with 58 mph winds when its centre passed 73 miles away. Pardeeville is tied for the most tropical storms and hurricanes within 75 miles among the 416 Wisconsin cities on this site. The strongest of the 127 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F5 on June 7, 1984; its path came within 19 miles, and it killed 9 people. Of the 127, 6 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 50 have come since 2000. June has had the most tornadoes, 44. The most recent tornado was on May 15, 2025. Pardeeville has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 92% of the 416 Wisconsin cities. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 70 times since 1970, with stones up to 2.5 inches (tennis ball size). Pardeeville has more hail reports within 10 miles than 63% of the 416 Wisconsin cities.

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Tropical storms and hurricanes near Pardeeville

Tropical systems that passed within 75 miles of Pardeeville, Wisconsin, newest first
Year	Storm	Closest	Strength when closest	Peak
1900	Unnamed 1900 stormSep 11	73 mi	Tropical storm (58 mph)	Category 4

Strength is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, which is not the wind felt in Pardeeville: a hurricane's worst winds sit within a few dozen miles of its centre, and inland cities are usually past that.

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Pardeeville

By decade

2020s4
2010s16
2000s30(2 EF3+)
1990s15
1980s29(3 EF3+)
1970s13(1 EF3+)
1960s12(3 EF3+)
1950s8(1 EF3+)

Strongest tornadoes near Pardeeville, Wisconsin
Date	Rating	Distance	Path	Killed / injured
Jun 7, 1984	F5	19 mi	36 mi	9 / 200
Sep 26, 1951	F4	5 mi	9 mi	1 / 9
Jun 23, 2004	F3	21 mi	7.6 mi	1 / 1
Jun 23, 2004	F3	20 mi	33.3 mi	0 / 0
Jun 8, 1984	F3	7 mi	29 mi	0 / 1
Apr 7, 1980	F3	18 mi	1.2 mi	0 / 4
Jun 4, 1975	F3	21 mi	2.3 mi	0 / 0
Aug 16, 1963	F3	18 mi	9.6 mi	0 / 13
Aug 16, 1963	F3	18 mi	9.6 mi	0 / 13
Aug 16, 1963	F3	18 mi	9.6 mi	0 / 13
Jun 7, 2008	EF2	3 mi	8.63 mi	0 / 6
Aug 18, 2005	F2	17 mi	14.5 mi	0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 127, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

Hail in Pardeeville

The Storm Prediction Center has 70 hail reports within 10 miles of Pardeeville since 1970, made on 50 separate days. Of these, 39 were 1 inch across or larger, and one reached 2 inches. The largest, 2.5 inches (tennis ball size), fell on August 29, 1984. The most recent report is from May 15, 2025. June has the most reports, 21.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.

Weather by month in Pardeeville

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Portage Wwtp, WI, 6 miles west of Pardeeville at 785 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 62°F; January is the coolest, at 26°F and 10°F. June is the wettest at 5.6 inches of precipitation on average and January and February the driest at 1.4 inches; the year adds up to 38.4 inches over 73 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 9 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 148 nights a year. Snowfall averages 39.3 inches a year, most of it in January. That 38.4 inches is more than at 147 of the 165 Wisconsin stations used on this site (89%). Rio, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Arlington, WI): 35.4 inches a year, 3.0 less than here, and the same July average high, 82°F.

Monthly climate normals 1991–2020 at Portage Wwtp, WI
Month	High °F	Low °F	Precip. in	Days ≥ 0.1"	Snow in
Jan	26	10	1.4	5	10.2
Feb	31	13	1.4	4	10.0
Mar	42	24	2.2	5	5.5
Apr	56	36	4.2	7	2.2
May	68	48	4.6	9	0.0
Jun	78	58	5.6	8	0.0
Jul	82	62	4.5	7	0.0
Aug	80	59	4.1	7	0.0
Sep	73	51	3.6	7	0.0
Oct	59	39	2.9	6	0.5
Nov	44	28	2.2	5	2.0
Dec	32	17	1.7	5	8.9
Year	56	37	38.4	73	39.3

Averages for 1991–2020 at Portage Wwtp, WI (785 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.

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Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Pardeeville

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 118 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pardeeville: 89 thunderstorm wind reports, 16 floods, 6 flash floods, 5 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $8.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on August 26, 2004. Of the 374 Wisconsin cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 197 have had fewer than Pardeeville.

May 31, 1998: thunderstorm wind 4 miles from the centre of Pardeeville — 1 injured, $3.8 million damage.
June 7, 2008: thunderstorm wind 5 miles from the centre of Pardeeville — 1 injured, $25,000 damage.
August 3, 2004: thunderstorm wind 7 miles from the centre of Pardeeville — $3.0 million damage.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.

Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings

Columbia County, which includes Pardeeville, has been named in 11 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1976, 7 of them major disasters (by incident: 5 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies, 1 drought, 1 flood). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on April 4, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Columbia County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for hail; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes, inland flooding, strong wind and heat waves; Relatively Low for lightning; Very Low for hurricanes. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $51.4 million a year, the 12th highest of 72 Wisconsin counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $20.5 million (40%), is from hail.

Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

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