Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Price County, Wisconsin

2,707 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Price County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,707
Warnings
521
Watches
367
Advisories
653
Busiest year
2011180 alerts
Average year
68over 40 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, 43% of tornado reports in Price County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 22 minutes before, and 64% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20102150%0
2011440%786%22 min
201740100%0
201910100%70%
202310100%0
202520100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811191%250%33 min
20097529%888%19 min
201017853%11100%32 min
2011311552%2152%19 min
201212650%6100%23 min
201310280%250%14 min
201410730%1182%21 min
20156433%6100%15 min
2016550%667%19 min
201718856%1173%22 min
201817759%1080%21 min
201914471%967%32 min
20206433%250%17 min
20217357%30%
202210730%683%21 min
202311109%989%21 min
20248713%17100%26 min
20257529%3100%30 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20103233%367%52 min
201120100%0
201610100%10%
2017220%0
201910100%0
2020110%10%
202110100%0
202310100%0
202410100%20%

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 17, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH29 min
Jul 17, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH18 min
Jul 17, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDLH60 min
Jul 8, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH66 min
May 18, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH32 min
Apr 23, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH42 min
Apr 17, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDLH61 min
Apr 17, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH33 min
Apr 3, 2:10 AM CDTIce Storm WarningDLH32 hr
Apr 1, 1:13 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDLH54 hr
Mar 14, 1:50 PM CDTBlizzard WarningDLH37 hr
Mar 13, 12:58 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDLH60 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.