Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
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Area
Racine
Event narrative (NOAA)
A young teenage swimmer at North Beach along the Racine lakefront was found unconscious about 200 yards from shore. The swimmer was flown to a local hospital but succumbed to injuries sustained from drowning two days later. Onshore winds and waves may have caused long shore and structural currents along North Beach and the North Beach Pier which may have contributed to the drowning death.
Other notable rip current events in Wisconsin
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.