{"id":1656,"date":"2026-07-27T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:53:02","slug":"wisconsin-tornado-causes-extensive-damage-and-cuts-power-to-thousands-of-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin tornado causes extensive damage and cuts power to thousands of homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026-07-27T18:47:22Z<\/p>\n<p>APPLETON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A tornado swept through Wisconsin on Monday, damaging homes, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>The twister was moving over Lake Winnebago and moving southward toward Fond du Lac County around 12:25 p.m., the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<p>Images posted to social media showed extensive damage in Appleton, including homes stripped of roofs and siding, cars flipped over and streets littered with tree limbs.<\/p>\n<p>In Menasha, the electric utility said the entire city of about 18,000 people is believed to be without power because of a downed transmission line.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-07-27T18:47:22Z APPLETON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A tornado swept through Wisconsin on Monday, damaging homes, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands of people. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. The twister was moving over Lake Winnebago and moving southward toward Fond du&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}