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Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 1998

22 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
May10 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 15, 19983 tornado watches

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 29, 2:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Pepin, Pierce, Trempealeau6 hr
Mar 29, 2:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 32 more6 hr
Mar 29, 8:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark and 33 more6 hr
May 15, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPierce6 hr
May 15, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa and 18 more6 hr
May 15, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette and 1 more6 hr
May 15, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Florence and 26 more6 hr
May 15, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth and 1 more4 hr
May 28, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford5 hr
May 30, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Buffalo, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Polk and 1 more6 hr
May 30, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Burnett, Chippewa, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce and 6 more6 hr
May 31, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Grant5 hr
May 31, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge and 27 more5 hr
Jun 20, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Crawford, Dane, Grant, Iowa, Jackson and 9 more5 hr
Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 10 more6 hr
Jun 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin and 6 more7 hr
Jun 26, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Dane, Dodge and 16 more6 hr
Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPierce, Saint Croix6 hr
Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 15 more6 hr
Jul 20, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn6 hr
Aug 22, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson and 8 more6 hr
Sep 26, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Door and 20 more6 hr

By county

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

32 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 15, 19983tornado watches
  2. May 31, 19983tornado watches
  3. June 27, 19983tornado watches
  4. March 29, 19982tornado watches
  5. May 16, 19982tornado watches
  6. March 30, 19981tornado watches
  7. May 28, 19981tornado watches
  8. May 30, 19981tornado watches
  9. June 20, 19981tornado watches
  10. June 25, 19981tornado watches
  11. June 28, 19981tornado watches
  12. July 20, 19981tornado watches

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.