Alert archive / Wisconsin

Weather alerts in Saint Croix County, Wisconsin

2,470 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Saint Croix County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,470
Warnings
621
Watches
474
Advisories
599
Busiest year
2010140 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, 85% of tornado reports in Saint Croix County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 16 minutes before, and 55% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
200913654%786%15 min
20104175%10%
201110100%0
201310100%0
2017110%0
201810100%0
201910100%0
2020110%0
20212150%1100%12 min
202210100%0
2024220%1100%16 min
2025220%3100%18 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008151033%2370%24 min
20094325%911%35 min
2010211148%825%29 min
201116756%1100%14 min
201215847%667%19 min
201312925%7100%16 min
20142150%0
20158713%650%27 min
201612192%30%
201710640%12100%26 min
201810820%757%18 min
20199367%333%5 min
20207271%10%
202113746%9100%21 min
2022161038%1894%24 min
202313838%1958%11 min
202412925%933%15 min
20259722%2374%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009010%
20103233%450%90 min
201110100%0
2013220%2100%63 min
2015220%3100%72 min
201610100%0
201810100%0
2019110%1100%23 min
2020220%3100%152 min
202310100%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
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, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX41 min
Jun 19, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX34 min
Jun 19, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX47 min
Jun 10, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX41 min
May 1, 1:03 PM CDTFreeze WarningMPX19 hr
Apr 30, 1:46 PM CDTFreeze WarningMPX18 hr
Apr 29, 1:01 PM CDTFreeze WarningMPX19 hr
Apr 17, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX35 min
Apr 17, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPX33 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.