A tornado was reported by a trained spotter near Union Grove, just west of Racine, yesterday afternoon. It was one of five tornadoes reported across the country on Monday. Our Weatherbug network recorded a gust of 41 mph at Union Grove around 4 PM and a little over an inch of rain. While we had some severe weather reports yesterday, overall this has been a quiet severe weather season so far. There have been 716 tornadoes reported in the U.S. this year and that compares with 1088 through the same period last year. There have been 21 deaths in 2009 from tornadoes and last year there were 126 deaths from tornadoes by the end of June. There have been deaths reported in 7 states this year. There have not been any deaths from tornadoes yet in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana.
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