Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, August 2003
2 tornado watches in August 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 20, 20031 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 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Brown, Buffalo, Burnett and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Sawyer and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashland County2
- Bayfield County2
- Burnett County2
- Douglas County2
- Iron County2
- Sawyer County2
- Washburn County2
- Barron County1
- Brown County1
- Buffalo County1
- Chippewa County1
- Clark County1
- Dunn County1
- Eau Claire County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Langlade County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marathon County1
- Menominee County1
- Oconto County1
- Oneida County1
- Outagamie County1
- Pepin County1
- Pierce County1
- Polk County1
- Portage County1
- Price County1
- Rusk County1
- Saint Croix County1
- Shawano County1
- Taylor County1
- Vilas County1
- Waupaca County1
- Wood 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.