⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Columbia; Dodge; Washington; Dane – Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued July 8 at 9:14PM CDT by NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI

Details

At 914 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northwest of Mayville to near Beaver
Dam to near Fall River to Poynette to near Lodi. Movement was east at
35 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include…
Eastern Madison, West Bend, Sun Prairie, Beaver Dam, Hartford,
Waunakee, Windsor, Mayville, Columbus, Kewaskum, Prairie Du Sac,
Marshall, Horicon, Sauk City, Juneau, Lake Wisconsin, Deforest, Lodi,
Poynette, and Fall River.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 39/90/94 between mile markers 114 and 136.
U.S. Highway 151 between mile markers 98 and 139.
Interstate 94 between mile markers 243 and 245.
Wisconsin Highway 26 between mile markers 47 and 53.
Interstate 41 between mile markers 69 and 82.
U.S. Highway 45 near mile marker 73.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
south central, southeastern and east central Wisconsin.

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