Thirty-eight years ago today, June 8th of 1984, an F-5 tornado destroyed 90-percent of the small Wisconsin town of Barneveld.
Nine people died and 200 others were injured when the tornado struck the Iowa County community of 580 residents just after 12:30 in the morning.
What made Barneveld’s weather event rare is it hit overnight.
A majority of tornadoes occur between 3:00 and 9:00 p.m and such violent storms almost never happen late at night.
Part of the Madison metropolitan area, the village’s population was 1,231 as of the 2010 census.
