Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Ashland County, Wisconsin

2,613 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ashland County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,613
Warnings
736
Watches
371
Advisories
852
Busiest year
2011164 alerts
Average year
67over 39 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 75% of tornado reports in Ashland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 37 minutes before, and 83% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20105340%3100%37 min
201120100%0
201910100%0
202020100%10%
202110100%0
202330100%0
202540100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200822673%1100%14 min
200920100%0
201013931%1191%31 min
2011441859%13100%31 min
201216663%333%0 min
201312192%250%11 min
201412742%250%2 min
20154250%20%
2016181044%786%29 min
201715660%250%37 min
201823961%580%15 min
201912467%0
2020151033%1479%21 min
202111736%333%4 min
202213130%4100%15 min
2023131023%944%24 min
20249633%10%
2025141029%6100%28 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010110%0
201110100%0
2013010%
201410100%0
2016220%2100%33 min
2017110%0
2018220%20%
20192150%1100%58 min
2020220%0
20243167%0
20252150%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 27, 2:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH65 min
Jul 25, 11:52 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDLH33 hr
Jul 17, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH18 min
Jul 17, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDLH60 min
Jul 17, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH48 min
Jul 17, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH46 min
Jul 17, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH41 min
Jul 11, 1:33 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDLH4 days
Jun 29, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH23 min
Jun 29, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH32 min
Jun 29, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH40 min
May 21, 2:14 AM CDTFreeze WarningDLH6 hr

Nearby

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.