Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Pepin County, Wisconsin

2,318 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pepin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,318
Warnings
469
Watches
483
Advisories
557
Busiest year
2011126 alerts
Average year
57over 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, 100% of tornado reports in Pepin County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 8 minutes before, and 71% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
2015110%0
2016110%1100%19 min
201710100%0
2018110%0
202120100%0
20222150%2100%2 min
202320100%0
202530100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087443%1100%25 min
20093167%0
201012283%0
201111736%0
201212925%2100%44 min
20137443%10%
2014220%1100%17 min
20154175%0
201613562%250%16 min
20177186%0
20187614%30%
201940100%0
2020440%5100%12 min
2021131023%4100%25 min
20226183%10%
20237357%450%17 min
20249544%367%27 min
20259544%6100%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20093233%540%124 min
20104175%20%
201120100%0
201210100%0
2015110%0
2025110%1100%73 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
Jul 24, 12:59 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMPX56 hr
Jul 12, 2:43 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMPX6 days
Jun 28, 12:44 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMPX47 hr
Jun 19, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX41 min
Jun 19, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX53 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX53 min
Jun 10, 12:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX66 min
Jun 10, 11:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX54 min
May 1, 1:03 PM CDTFreeze WarningMPX19 hr
Apr 13, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX49 min
Apr 13, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX44 min
Apr 13, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX32 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.