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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Monroe County, Wisconsin

288 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Monroe County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
288
Busiest year
201119 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
7over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 74% of hail, wind and damage reports in Monroe County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 22 minutes before, and 28% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089544%1663%35 min
20096350%5100%22 min
201010730%667%24 min
201121210%3482%18 min
2012330%3100%5 min
20139544%30%
2014141121%888%21 min
20156517%1385%14 min
201611918%10100%27 min
2017141029%1450%18 min
20184325%50%
20197614%967%21 min
20207443%560%19 min
202114657%1392%37 min
2022151033%1070%27 min
20236433%450%9 min
20248538%875%15 min
20259722%5100%7 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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 2, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX50 min
Aug 18, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX66 min
Aug 9, 7:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX34 min
Jul 1, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX39 min
Jun 11, 11:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX28 min
Jun 5, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX61 min
Apr 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX59 min
Apr 17, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX38 min
Apr 17, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatARX50 min
Apr 14, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX42 min
Apr 14, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatARX52 min
Apr 14, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARX43 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.