Alert archive / Wisconsin / 1997
Weather alerts in Wisconsin, August 1997
47 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 47
- Warnings
- 43
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 4, 199715 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 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Polk and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Vernon | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Saint Croix | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 70 min |
| Aug 15, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 63 min |
| Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pierce | 31 min |
| Aug 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Trempealeau | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 3 hr |
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 | 33 |
| Tornado Warning | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buffalo County9
- Dunn County8
- Pierce County7
- Trempealeau County7
- Pepin County6
- La Crosse County6
- Polk County5
- Saint Croix County5
- Barron County4
- Eau Claire County4
- Dane County3
- Chippewa County3
- Wood County2
- Sauk County2
- Vernon County2
- Rock County2
- Green County2
- Lincoln County2
- Green Lake County2
- Grant County2
- Dodge County2
- Rusk County2
- Clark County2
- Jackson County2
- Juneau County2
- Monroe County2
- Vilas County2
- Fond du Lac County1
- Burnett County1
- Waushara County1
- Racine County1
- Walworth County1
- Columbia County1
- Douglas County1
- Bayfield County1
- Adams County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Iron County1
- Langlade 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.