Extreme Cold Watches in Wisconsin
9 extreme cold 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 extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 9
- Busiest year
- 20266 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 5over 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.
- Ashland County2
- Barron County2
- Bayfield County2
- Buffalo County2
- Burnett County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clark County2
- Douglas County2
- Dunn County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Iron County2
- Jackson County2
- Pepin County2
- Pierce County2
- Polk County2
- Price County2
- Rusk County2
- Saint Croix County2
- Sawyer County2
- Taylor County2
- Trempealeau County2
- Washburn County2
- Columbia County2
- Dane County2
- Dodge County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Green County2
- Green Lake County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kenosha County2
- Lafayette County2
- Marquette County2
- Milwaukee County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Rock County2
- Sauk County2
- Sheboygan County2
- Walworth County2
32 more counties
- Washington County2
- Waukesha County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Calumet County1
- Crawford County1
- Door County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Grant County1
- Juneau County1
- Kewaunee County1
- La Crosse County1
- Langlade County1
- Lincoln County1
- Manitowoc County1
- Marathon County1
- Marinette County1
- Menominee County1
- Monroe County1
- Oconto County1
- Oneida County1
- Outagamie County1
- Portage County1
- Richland County1
- Shawano County1
- Vernon County1
- Vilas County1
- Waupaca County1
- Waushara County1
- Winnebago County1
- Wood County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 1:27 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 21 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:36 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 16 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:57 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce and 3 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:47 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ARX | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Grant, Jackson and 7 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:43 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price and 2 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:40 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 25 hr |
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.