Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

2,444 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Outagamie County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,444
Warnings
569
Watches
346
Advisories
703
Busiest year
2019175 alerts
Average year
60over 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, 56% of tornado reports in Outagamie County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 11 minutes before, and 45% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201020100%0
20116350%1100%15 min
2013030%
201510100%0
20162150%1100%0 min
2017110%40%
20193233%3100%16 min
2021110%2100%2 min
2022330%3100%14 min
2024010%
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008151220%667%15 min
200910100%0
2010141121%1669%25 min
2011161131%2879%24 min
201211736%540%11 min
201312833%3087%16 min
20147271%40%
2015990%1385%23 min
201612925%2090%26 min
2017171229%1292%31 min
201812742%1369%28 min
201912118%2090%13 min
2020220%367%24 min
2021151033%3382%31 min
202211109%23100%28 min
2023030%
202412925%1070%16 min
2025151220%1479%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%1100%7 min
2010330%560%83 min
201510100%0
201810100%10%
2019110%0
202110100%0
20242150%367%29 min
20252150%0

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
Sep 4, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB57 min
Aug 21, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB45 min
Jul 27, 11:59 AM CDTTornado WarningGRB46 min
Jul 27, 11:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatGRB62 min
Jul 27, 11:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGRB31 min
Jul 27, 11:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatGRB47 min
Jul 27, 10:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatGRB45 min
Jul 27, 10:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGRB44 min
Jul 20, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB27 min
Jul 8, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB42 min
Jul 8, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRB49 min
Jul 1, 10:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRB3 hr

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.