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Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, May 2025
34 tornado warnings in May 2025. 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 34
- Busiest day
- May 15, 202533 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pierce | 22 min |
| May 15, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 14 min |
| May 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 23 min |
| May 15, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 20 min |
| May 15, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 30 min |
| May 15, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 35 min |
| May 15, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin | 30 min |
| May 15, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 20 min |
| May 15, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 26 min |
| May 15, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 26 min |
| May 15, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 25 min |
| May 15, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 27 min |
| May 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 45 min |
| May 15, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette | 46 min |
| May 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Douglas | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 39 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Adams | 24 min |
| May 15, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage, Wood | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon, Wood | 48 min |
| May 15, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Ashland, Sawyer | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 51 min |
| May 15, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer | 24 min |
| May 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon, Portage | 44 min |
| May 15, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage, Waupaca, Waushara | 44 min |
| May 15, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington | 28 min |
| May 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 55 min |
| May 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 16 min |
| May 15, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage | 34 min |
| May 15, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 17 min |
| May 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 37 min |
| May 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Langlade, Lincoln | 26 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dunn County4
- Columbia County4
- Portage County4
- Marathon County4
- Fond du Lac County4
- Pierce County3
- Pepin County3
- Dodge County3
- Saint Croix County2
- Polk County2
- Chippewa County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Sauk County2
- Clark County2
- Green Lake County2
- Wood County2
- Ashland County2
- Sawyer County2
- Lincoln County2
- Buffalo County1
- Marquette County1
- Douglas County1
- Adams County1
- Bayfield County1
- Taylor County1
- Waupaca County1
- Waushara County1
- Washington County1
- Sheboygan County1
- Langlade County1
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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.