Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Oconto County, Wisconsin

2,304 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Oconto County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,304
Warnings
574
Watches
326
Advisories
745
Busiest year
2019161 alerts
Average year
56over 41 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 80% of tornado reports in Oconto County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 11 minutes before, and 78% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201020100%0
201210100%0
201310100%0
2015110%2100%5 min
2017110%0
201820100%0
2021110%0
202230100%0
202420100%0
20254175%367%18 min

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811373%1100%28 min
200920100%0
20109811%450%34 min
201113562%425%22 min
2012131023%5100%25 min
201313838%520%12 min
20144175%10%
20159633%944%28 min
20168713%367%57 min
201721957%7100%30 min
20189544%7100%19 min
2019181044%875%37 min
20208538%580%26 min
202113746%956%34 min
202211736%6100%16 min
20238363%771%20 min
20249456%450%32 min
2025181044%888%16 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201210100%0
2019110%10%
2022110%1100%23 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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 12, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB42 min
Aug 12, 2:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB53 min
Jul 27, 10:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB17 min
Jul 27, 9:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB63 min
Jul 27, 9:44 AM CDTTornado WarningGRB31 min
Jul 27, 9:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGRB44 min
Jun 30, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB49 min
Jun 28, 11:54 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningGRB55 hr
Jun 24, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB65 min
Jun 24, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB53 min
Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB47 min
Jun 5, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB28 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.