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Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2023

23 tornado warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
23
Busiest month
July15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 1, 20235 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
Mar 31, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen, Rock37 min
Mar 31, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRock49 min
Mar 31, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane, Jefferson, Rock40 min
Mar 31, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXJefferson, Rock, Walworth41 min
Mar 31, 8:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMKXJefferson17 min
May 8, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPierce34 min
Jul 4, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPepin, Pierce32 min
Jul 12, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen16 min
Jul 13, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRock, Walworth27 min
Jul 13, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRock, Walworth32 min
Jul 19, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHBurnett, Washburn27 min
Jul 19, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron, Polk39 min
Jul 19, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBarron, Rusk49 min
Jul 27, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAshland, Bayfield, Sawyer32 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAshland29 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPrice, Sawyer29 min
Jul 28, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXLafayette35 min
Jul 28, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXLafayette20 min
Jul 28, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Sauk26 min
Jul 28, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson46 min
Jul 28, 10:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRacine, Walworth, Waukesha27 min
Aug 11, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPepin13 min
Aug 16, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAshland, Bayfield13 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. April 1, 20235tornado warnings
  2. July 29, 20235tornado warnings
  3. July 19, 20233tornado warnings
  4. July 27, 20233tornado warnings
  5. July 13, 20232tornado warnings
  6. May 8, 20231tornado warnings
  7. July 4, 20231tornado warnings
  8. July 12, 20231tornado warnings
  9. August 11, 20231tornado warnings
  10. August 17, 20231tornado 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.