⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Sauk; Columbia; Dodge; Washington; Dane; Jefferson; Waukesha – Saturday, July 4, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued July 4 at 1:28PM CDT by NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI

Details

At 127 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking clusters of showers and
developing thunderstorms from northern Dane, southern Columbia,
central and southern Dodge, northern Jefferson and northern Waukesha
counties, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 40 mph and brief funnel clouds.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Madison, Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, West Bend, Sun Prairie,
Fitchburg, Watertown, Mequon, Middleton, Beaver Dam, Hartford,
Pewaukee, Waunakee, Verona, Sussex, Hartland, McFarland, Monona,
Delafield, and Mount Horeb.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 39/90/94 between mile markers 114 and 137.
U.S. Highway 18 between mile markers 62 and 76, and between mile
markers 81 and 84.
U.S. Highway 12 between mile markers 249 and 273.
U.S. Highway 151 between mile markers 98 and 136.
Interstate 39/90 between mile markers 138 and 145.
Interstate 94 between mile markers 241 and 284.
Wisconsin Highway 26 between mile markers 31 and 53.
Interstate 41 between mile markers 49 and 81.
U.S. Highway 45 between mile markers 61 and 73.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Conditions are favorable for the development of weak, brief funnel
clouds. This type of funnel cloud is harmless, but on rare occasions
they can briefly touch down, producing wind gusts over 50 mph. If a
funnel cloud is spotted move indoors and report your sighting to the
National Weather Service.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.