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Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2002
11 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20023 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Crawford and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | La Crosse, Monroe | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Florence, Forest, Oneida, Vilas | 5 hr |
| May 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Eau Claire, Grant, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Brown, Burnett, Calumet, Door and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett, Polk, Saint Croix | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pierce, Saint Croix | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Eau Claire, Florence and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 30, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa and 17 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chippewa County4
- Clark County4
- Eau Claire County4
- Jackson County4
- La Crosse County4
- Monroe County4
- Rusk County4
- Taylor County4
- Trempealeau County4
- Buffalo County4
- Pepin County4
- Burnett County4
- Saint Croix County4
- Langlade County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marathon County3
- Menominee County3
- Oconto County3
- Outagamie County3
- Portage County3
- Shawano County3
- Vernon County3
- Waupaca County3
- Wood County3
- Florence County3
- Forest County3
- Oneida County3
- Price County3
- Sawyer County3
- Pierce County3
- Adams County2
- Calumet County2
- Crawford County2
- Grant County2
- Green Lake County2
- Juneau County2
- Marquette County2
- Richland County2
- Waushara County2
- Winnebago County2
31 more counties
- Vilas County2
- Ashland County2
- Bayfield County2
- Douglas County2
- Iron County2
- Marinette County2
- Washburn County2
- Dunn County2
- Polk County2
- Columbia County1
- Dane County1
- Dodge County1
- Fond du Lac County1
- Green County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kenosha County1
- Lafayette County1
- Milwaukee County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Racine County1
- Rock County1
- Sauk County1
- Walworth County1
- Washington County1
- Waukesha County1
- Brown County1
- Door County1
- Kewaunee County1
- Manitowoc County1
- Barron County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.