Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Bayfield County, Wisconsin

2,689 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Bayfield County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,689
Warnings
715
Watches
389
Advisories
836
Busiest year
2011150 alerts
Average year
67over 40 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, of tornado reports in Bayfield County fell inside a tornado warning, and 82% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20103167%0
201110100%0
201310100%0
2019110%0
20203167%0
202150100%0
202320100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200823961%757%19 min
200960100%0
2010191237%2095%31 min
2011391756%1191%25 min
201211282%475%18 min
201311282%450%26 min
201410910%667%21 min
20154175%0
2016161038%1656%14 min
201716944%560%21 min
201817853%757%18 min
20197357%540%27 min
2020171229%2268%17 min
2021131115%1060%16 min
2022121017%1182%20 min
2023181517%1070%31 min
20249456%425%15 min
2025191237%2475%33 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201110100%0
201210100%0
2013010%
201410100%0
2016220%2100%48 min
20186517%12100%262 min
20194325%0
20202150%1100%115 min
2023110%1100%114 min
20243167%367%88 min
20254250%1100%69 min

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 27, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH60 min
Jul 25, 11:52 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDLH33 hr
Jul 17, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH41 min
Jul 11, 1:33 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDLH4 days
Jun 29, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH32 min
Jun 29, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH54 min
Jun 29, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH40 min
Jun 24, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH27 min
May 14, 11:25 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDLH34 hr
Apr 23, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH27 min
Apr 17, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDLH61 min

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.