UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) Up to four-inches of rain fell during a series of thunderstorms that lasted for ten hours yesterday in southeast Wisconsin. The National Weather Service reported flash floods in Brookfield and Wauwatosa -- and in Waukesha, where the Fox River went over its banks and into some backyards.
Watertown had 60-mile-an-hour winds with numerous trees and power lines down.
Four-inches of rain fell near Fort Atkinson, and Pewaukee had one-and-a-third-inches in just one hour.
Racine had baseball-sized hail, and Beloit had tennis-ball-sized hail. A house in North Prairie was struck by lightning.