January 7 2008 Tornado - Kenosha Police 911 Calls

January 7 2008 Tornado - Kenosha Police 911 Calls

Experiencing a tornado in Wisconsin in January is extremely rare. In fact, it had only happened once between 1950 and 2007, when an F3 tornado affected parts of Green and Rock Counties on January 24, 1967. That tornado in South Central Wisconsin was part of a much larger outbreak of 30 tornadoes across mostly Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. Wisconsin ended up with 30 tornadoes in 1967. The 30-year average annual number of tornadoes in Wisconsin is 21.

However, on the afternoon of January 7, 2008 a warm, moist, and unstable airmass, with temperatures rising into the lower 60s, moved into Southeast Wisconsin - setting the stage for a rare January severe weather event. Thunderstorms formed just ahead of a stationary front and produced hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes.

One of the thunderstorms tracked from just north of Rockford, Illinois into far Southeast Wisconsin. This supercell thunderstorm produced an EF-3 tornado in Northern Illinois. The same storm also produced two tornadoes in Wisconsin. The first tornado spun up in Southeast Walworth County and then tracked through the Wheatland and Brighton areas of Western Kenosha County. The second tornado occurred in the town of Somers and on the north side of the city of Kenosha.




Burlington Kenosha Genoa City Paddock Lake Pleasant Prairie Silver Lake Twin Lakes Brighton Bristol Paris Randall Salem Somers Wheatland Bassett Benet Lake Berryville Bissell Camp Lake Central Park Chapin Erly Kellogg's Corners Klondike Lake Shangrila Liberty Corners Mud Lake New Munster Paris Corners Peat Lake Pikeville Powers Lake Salem Oaks Trevor Voltz Lake Wilmot Woodworth Burlington Burlington Caledonia Dover Elmwood Park Mount Pleasant North Bay Norway Racine Raymond Rochester Sturtevant Union Grove Waterford Waterford Wind Point Yorkville Bohners Lake Browns Lake Eagle Lake Waterford North Wind Lake Franksville Husher Ives Grove Kansasville Kilbournville Kneeland North Cape Sylvania Tabor Thompsonville Union Church

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• 911 Calls
• 911 Call
• Tornado
• Sirens
• Car Crash
• 2008
• Kenosha
• Wisconsin
• Legend813

[Turbo2012Sonata]

So people I take it don't have weather radios or tv's in WI?

[ssivertsen1008]

I'm sure anyone that lived through the January tornado in this area will NOT call 911 asking if the sirens are a test or not again. It was unseasonably warm and we would have never expected an actual tornado. I am not the slightest bit surprised people called 911. We are not ignorant people. It was JANUARY 7TH!! It's actually been unseasonably warm here again. Thank God there's no "weather" in the area. It could have happened again.

[milesDnelson]

I was 9 when this tornado hit my house.I was at my friends (which got completley destroyed) when the sirens went off. My house was hit. Half of it was gone. Everytime i seethese vids i get so sad.

[kbleo90]

Wow this is sad. but i dont blame them for asking i mean this was in january but then again you have to remember that year it was like 63 degrees out not normal so expect weird weather. but, shiiz it reminds me of june 30th 2011 all that dang wind i was workin that day too. crazy crap

[irishdancersami]

I hate looking at how many people around me were affected. I live in Kenosha and this was a very upsetting day

[ShadowKillah08]

I was at LakeView Technology Academy on hwy H in the tool shop when this tornado hit around supper. We didn't believe the sirens, it was the middle of winter. Usually we get tornado activity in summer. So... I don't blame people calling and asking if the sirens were for real. We keep sawing and drilling through the ordeal.

[Wekissinbreakdowns]

Turn on your damn TV!

[lcmedic32]

@rbcp

Not nearly as bad as having your Emergency Manager having to call dispatch to find out why they are going off...

[cronoskronos]

Why is the audio jumbled?

[CheesyCheetah]

Nice upload. How you get the 911 transmissions though? Im in Racine.