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Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2008

18 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
June10 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 25, 20082 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
Apr 25, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 26 more5 hr
May 2, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Grant and 14 more3 hr
May 25, 2:04 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn and 14 more6 hr
May 25, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurnett, Douglas, Washburn6 hr
May 25, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 39 more4 hr
Jun 5, 4:59 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Iowa and 11 more6 hr
Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 11 more8 hr
Jun 6, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee and 6 more5 hr
Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Columbia, Crawford and 35 more8 hr
Jun 7, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant and 10 more7 hr
Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock6 hr
Jun 8, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCKenosha, Racine, Walworth5 hr
Jun 11, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix and 1 more5 hr
Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green and 15 more7 hr
Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 8 more6 hr
Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce and 3 more8 hr
Jul 19, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau and 11 more5 hr
Aug 3, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 10 more5 hr

By county

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

22 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 25, 20082tornado watches
  2. June 6, 20082tornado watches
  3. June 8, 20082tornado watches
  4. June 12, 20082tornado watches
  5. July 19, 20082tornado watches
  6. April 25, 20081tornado watches
  7. May 2, 20081tornado watches
  8. May 26, 20081tornado watches
  9. June 5, 20081tornado watches
  10. June 7, 20081tornado watches
  11. June 9, 20081tornado watches
  12. June 13, 20081tornado 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.