Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, August 1997
3 tornado watches in August 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 15, 19971 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 15 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buffalo County3
- Chippewa County3
- Dunn County3
- Eau Claire County3
- Pepin County3
- Pierce County3
- Trempealeau County3
- Rusk County2
- Saint Croix County2
- Clark County2
- Jackson County2
- Juneau County2
- La Crosse County2
- Monroe County2
- Barron County1
- Polk County1
- Adams County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Iron County1
- Langlade County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marathon County1
- Menominee County1
- Oneida County1
- Portage County1
- Price County1
- Sawyer County1
- Shawano County1
- Taylor County1
- Vilas County1
- Wood County1
- Crawford County1
- Grant County1
- Green County1
- Iowa County1
- Lafayette County1
- Richland County1
- Sauk County1
- Vernon County1
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.