Alert archive / Wisconsin / Dane County / 2026
Weather alerts in Dane County, Wisconsin, May 2026
20 weather alerts in May 2026, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20266 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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:42 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | MKX | 30 hr |
| May 5, 1:13 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MKX | 19 hr |
| May 6, 1:20 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MKX | 19 hr |
| May 7, 12:48 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MKX | 19 hr |
| May 10, 11:59 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MKX | 20 hr |
| May 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MKX | 4 hr |
| May 15, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| May 15, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 16, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | 66 min |
| May 16, 12:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| May 17, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | 40 min |
| May 17, 11:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| May 17, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | 51 min |
| May 17, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | 38 min |
| May 17, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | 27 min |
| May 17, 11:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | 47 min |
| May 19, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | 83 min |
| May 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | 20 min |
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 | 5 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 4 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
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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.