The National Weather Service said six tornadoes hit Wisconsin late Monday night and early Tuesday morning as severe storms moved from the Plains to the Midwest.
An EF3 tornado with winds as high as 140 mph hit the town of Verona, near Madison, at around midnight Tuesday morning, heavily damaging an elementary school. Earlier in the evening, a confirmed high-end EF2 tornado hit the town of Platteville, southwest of Madison. Winds in that twister were as high as 120 mph, leaving damage at the UW-Platteville campus but no injuries.
An EF1 tornado was confirmed near Platteville Golf and Country Club, and the NWS said it identified three other tornadoes – two in Green County and one more in far northwestern Madison.
"This was a nightmare scenario: Rotation embedded in a squall line of severe thunderstorms, at night, after many may have went to sleep," said weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman. "There had not been a single tornado anywhere in the Badger State so far in 2014, the latest wait for the year's first tornado, there, since 1997."
http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/madison-wisconsin-tornado-20140617
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