Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, May 2008
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20082 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 2, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Grant and 14 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett, Douglas, Washburn | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 39 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County3
- Grant County3
- La Crosse County3
- Monroe County3
- Richland County3
- Vernon County3
- Adams County2
- Columbia County2
- Dane County2
- Dodge County2
- Green County2
- Green Lake County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Juneau County2
- Lafayette County2
- Marquette County2
- Rock County2
- Sauk County2
- Buffalo County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clark County2
- Dunn County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Jackson County2
- Pepin County2
- Rusk County2
- Taylor County2
- Trempealeau County2
- Walworth County1
- Barron County1
- Pierce County1
- Polk County1
- Saint Croix County1
- Burnett County1
- Douglas County1
- Washburn County1
- Brown County1
- Calumet County1
- Fond du Lac 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.