COLBY − Within hours of a tornado tearing through the Colby area, residents, neighbors and others were out in the community Thursday, May 15 volunteering their wood cutters and chainsaws to help ...

COLBY, Wis. (WSAW) - The National Weather Service in La Crosse has confirmed an EF-2 tornado was on the ground in the Colby area Thursday evening. A NWS storm survey team examined the area.

An EF2 tornado with 120 mph winds hit Colby, Wisconsin, Thursday evening, damaging homes, businesses, and power lines. A young girl trapped in a barn's debris escaped with minor injuries.