Extreme Cold Warnings in Wisconsin
16 extreme cold warnings 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 16
- Busiest year
- 202511 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 8over 2 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.
- Barron County4
- Burnett County4
- Douglas County4
- Polk County4
- Washburn County4
- Ashland County3
- Bayfield County3
- Buffalo County3
- Chippewa County3
- Clark County3
- Dunn County3
- Eau Claire County3
- Iron County3
- Jackson County3
- Langlade County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marathon County3
- Pepin County3
- Pierce County3
- Portage County3
- Price County3
- Rusk County3
- Saint Croix County3
- Sawyer County3
- Taylor County3
- Trempealeau County3
- Waushara County3
- Wood County3
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Calumet County2
- Columbia County2
- Crawford County2
- Dane County2
- Dodge County2
- Door County2
- Florence County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Forest County2
- Grant County2
32 more counties
- Green County2
- Green Lake County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Juneau County2
- Kenosha County2
- Kewaunee County2
- La Crosse County2
- Lafayette County2
- Manitowoc County2
- Marinette County2
- Marquette County2
- Menominee County2
- Milwaukee County2
- Monroe County2
- Oconto County2
- Oneida County2
- Outagamie County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Richland County2
- Rock County2
- Sauk County2
- Shawano County2
- Sheboygan County2
- Vernon County2
- Vilas County2
- Walworth County2
- Washington County2
- Waukesha County2
- Waupaca County2
- Winnebago County2
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 1:31 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 16 more | 67 hr |
| Jan 21, 1:25 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 65 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:02 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce and 3 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:56 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Grant, Jackson and 7 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:43 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price and 2 more | 4 days |
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.