These storms killed seven people and devastated communities in Arkansas, Iowa, Tennessee, Illinois and Mississippi. Outside of Wisconsin, the storm system generated at least 40 confirmed tornadoes Friday. However, these winds are expected "to die down pretty quickly" by Saturday afternoon and evening, Uhlmann said, leading "a fairly cold night" with temperatures in the single digits in the Northwoods.
The wind gusts were also expected to cause blowing snow, reducing visibility. Saturday: State 101 from Armstrong Creek to Florence and U.S. Two major highways were closed until 10:30 a.m. North of Green Bay and Eau Claire, travel conditions were more dangerous, with many major highways covered in snow and ice. According to, major highways north of a line from Sheboygan to La Crosse were slippery and snow-covered early Saturday morning. The wintry weather also made travel conditions hazardous Saturday morning. for Menominee, Oconto, Marathon, Shawano, Wood, Portage and southern Marinette counties. Further west, a winter storm warning was in effect until 1 p.m. Wintry weather continued through Saturday morningĪ winter weather advisory was in effect for Door, Waupaca, Outagamie, and Brown counties until 1 p.m. Most outages were in northern and northeastern Wisconsin. The storm also caused outages across the state, leaving over 13,000 Wisconsinites without power as of 4 p.m. Here are the latest reported snowfall totals from the National Weather Service: "The main difference (between kinds of storms) was in how the winds changed and what the temperature profile is." The same kind of instability "with a lot of vertical motion" in this large system caused both the heavy snow and the tornadoes, said Timm Uhlmann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Green Bay. A slow-moving, low-pressure system moving through the Midwest sparked a few tornadoes in southern Wisconsin and dropped over a foot of snow in some parts of the Northwoods on Friday night and Saturday morning.
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