Blizzard Watches in Wisconsin
5 blizzard watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 5
- Busiest year
- 20113 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 2over 3 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Douglas County2
- Dane County2
- Dodge County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Green County2
- Lafayette County2
- Jefferson County1
- Kenosha County1
- Milwaukee County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Racine County1
- Rock County1
- Sheboygan County1
- Walworth County1
- Washington County1
- Waukesha County1
- Columbia County1
- Green Lake County1
- Iowa County1
- Marquette County1
- Sauk County1
Nearby
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.