Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, May 2003
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20032 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa and 4 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Rock and 3 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County3
- Dane County3
- Green County3
- Iowa County3
- Lafayette County3
- Sauk County3
- Jefferson County3
- Rock County3
- Walworth County3
- Washington County3
- Waukesha County3
- Crawford County2
- Grant County2
- Richland County2
- Vernon County2
- Dodge County2
- Kenosha County2
- Milwaukee County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Sheboygan 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.