Alert archive / Wisconsin / 1987
Weather alerts in Wisconsin, May 1987
41 weather alerts in May 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 May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 41
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 27, 198712 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer, Washburn | 68 min |
| May 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lincoln, Taylor | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 40 min |
| May 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Price | 48 min |
| May 11, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 19 min |
| May 13, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 58 min |
| May 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin | 39 min |
| May 18, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 27 min |
| May 21, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 24 min |
| May 21, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 54 min |
| May 21, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 22 min |
| May 21, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Walworth | 29 min |
| May 21, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 62 min |
| May 21, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 40 min |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan | 50 min |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 50 min |
| May 21, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth, Waukesha | 57 min |
| May 21, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 36 min |
| May 21, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Green Lake | 23 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 21 min |
| May 26, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green, Rock | 38 min |
| May 26, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 10 min |
| May 27, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 58 min |
| May 27, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Sauk | 44 min |
| May 27, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette | 59 min |
| May 27, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane, Green, Rock | 59 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Dane, Green, Rock | 52 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake | 52 min |
| May 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 27, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Forest, Langlade | 53 min |
| May 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Walworth | 32 min |
| May 27, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lafayette | 18 min |
| May 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green | 47 min |
| May 27, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane, Iowa | 41 min |
| May 29, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 34 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 | 36 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rock County5
- Jefferson County5
- Dane County4
- Dodge County4
- Walworth County4
- Green County4
- Saint Croix County3
- Columbia County3
- Green Lake County3
- Fond du Lac County3
- Milwaukee County2
- Dunn County2
- Waukesha County2
- Iowa County2
- Buffalo County1
- Trempealeau County1
- Sawyer County1
- Washburn County1
- Lincoln County1
- Taylor County1
- Rusk County1
- Price County1
- Pierce County1
- Burnett County1
- Pepin County1
- Washington County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Sheboygan County1
- Kenosha County1
- Racine County1
- Sauk County1
- Marquette County1
- Forest County1
- Langlade County1
- Lafayette 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.