Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, May 2004
6 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20042 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 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 5 hr |
| May 21, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Grant, Richland | 7 hr |
| May 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lafayette | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, Richland | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha and 8 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County3
- Grant County3
- Richland County3
- Lafayette County3
- Dane County2
- Green County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kenosha County2
- Milwaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Rock County2
- Walworth County2
- Waukesha County2
- Barron County1
- Buffalo County1
- Dunn County1
- Pepin County1
- Pierce County1
- Saint Croix County1
- Columbia County1
- Dodge County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Sauk County1
- Washington 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.