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Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2020

39 tornado warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
39
Busiest month
July19 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 21, 20207 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 3:16 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXGrant44 min
May 23, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningARXGrant35 min
May 23, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRock25 min
May 23, 4:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMKXLafayette35 min
May 23, 4:50 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMKXRock40 min
May 23, 5:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMKXRock31 min
Jun 20, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXOzaukee, Washington21 min
Jun 20, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBWinnebago9 min
Jun 28, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPierce24 min
Jun 28, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPierce24 min
Jul 8, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAshland, Bayfield24 min
Jul 14, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXEau Claire21 min
Jul 18, 1:11 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHDouglas34 min
Jul 18, 1:18 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHBurnett14 min
Jul 18, 1:31 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHBurnett14 min
Jul 18, 1:43 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHBayfield, Douglas32 min
Jul 18, 1:56 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHBurnett, Douglas, Washburn19 min
Jul 18, 2:07 AM CDTTornado WarningDLHBayfield23 min
Jul 18, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPierce, Saint Croix37 min
Jul 21, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron36 min
Jul 21, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron, Dunn33 min
Jul 21, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningARXVernon30 min
Jul 21, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron3 min
Jul 21, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDunn60 min
Jul 21, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron45 min
Jul 21, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron52 min
Jul 21, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa42 min
Jul 21, 8:19 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXChippewa, Eau Claire41 min
Jul 21, 8:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXChippewa, Eau Claire53 min
Aug 10, 1:15 PM CDTTornado WarningARXGrant15 min
Aug 10, 1:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen, Lafayette27 min
Aug 10, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen, Rock17 min
Aug 10, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRacine, Walworth16 min
Aug 10, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXKenosha31 min
Aug 10, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRacine16 min
Aug 24, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia17 min
Sep 25, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAshland, Iron22 min
Nov 10, 4:21 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXRacine, Walworth24 min
Nov 10, 5:10 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXKenosha20 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 21, 20207tornado warnings
  2. May 23, 20206tornado warnings
  3. July 18, 20206tornado warnings
  4. August 10, 20206tornado warnings
  5. July 22, 20203tornado warnings
  6. June 20, 20202tornado warnings
  7. June 29, 20202tornado warnings
  8. November 10, 20202tornado warnings
  9. July 9, 20201tornado warnings
  10. July 14, 20201tornado warnings
  11. July 19, 20201tornado warnings
  12. August 25, 20201tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.