Alert archive / Wisconsin / 1987
Weather alerts in Wisconsin, August 1987
25 weather alerts in August 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 25
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 16, 19878 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Forest, Langlade | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Florence | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 16 min |
| Aug 3, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Green Lake | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Dane | 98 min |
| Aug 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth, Washington, Waukesha | 72 min |
| Aug 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Racine | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett | 57 min |
| Aug 29, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 67 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 19 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County3
- Dane County3
- Waukesha County3
- Milwaukee County3
- Kenosha County3
- Racine County3
- Burnett County3
- Forest County1
- Langlade County1
- Florence County1
- Green Lake County1
- Dodge County1
- Jefferson County1
- Fond du Lac County1
- Sheboygan County1
- Walworth County1
- Washington County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Polk County1
- Douglas County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.