Weather alerts in Wisconsin, 2008

1,784 weather alerts in 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 1,784
Warnings: 1,003
Watches: 213
Advisories: 421
Busiest month: June492 alerts
Busiest day: June 12, 200885 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

1,784 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.

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	471
Tornado Warning	72
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	32
Tornado Watch	18
Mesoscale Discussion	144
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	26
Flash Flood Warning	78
River Flood Warning	169
Flash Flood Watch	21
Flood Watch	10
River Flood Watch	58
Areal Flood Advisory	46
River Flood Advisory	2
River Flood Statement	2
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Heavy Snow Warning	9
Lake Effect Snow Warning	6
Winter Storm Warning	41
Blizzard Watch	1
Lake Effect Snow Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	49
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	39
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	90
Cold
Freeze Warning	5
Wind Chill Warning	12
Freeze Watch	3
Wind Chill Watch	6
Frost Advisory	21
Wind Chill Advisory	41
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	15
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	52
Coast and beach
Lakeshore Flood Statement	1
Marine
Gale Warning	16
Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	2
Special Marine Warning	90
Gale Watch	9
Heavy Freezing Spray Watch	2
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	2
Small Craft Advisory	88

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

32 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2007 2009

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.