Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2011
11 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20113 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Green, Lafayette, Rock | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, Vernon | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Brown, Buffalo and 57 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Door and 36 more | 9 hr |
| May 22, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Chippewa and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett, Douglas, Washburn | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Green, Kenosha, Lafayette, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 20 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monroe County6
- La Crosse County5
- Adams County5
- Green Lake County5
- Jackson County5
- Juneau County5
- Marquette County5
- Green County4
- Rock County4
- Richland County4
- Vernon County4
- Barron County4
- Buffalo County4
- Chippewa County4
- Clark County4
- Columbia County4
- Dodge County4
- Dunn County4
- Eau Claire County4
- Menominee County4
- Oconto County4
- Pepin County4
- Portage County4
- Rusk County4
- Sauk County4
- Shawano County4
- Taylor County4
- Trempealeau County4
- Waupaca County4
- Waushara County4
- Wood County4
- Lafayette County3
- Crawford County3
- Ashland County3
- Bayfield County3
- Brown County3
- Burnett County3
- Calumet County3
- Dane County3
- Douglas County3
32 more counties
- Florence County3
- Fond du Lac County3
- Forest County3
- Iowa County3
- Iron County3
- Jefferson County3
- Kewaunee County3
- Langlade County3
- Lincoln County3
- Manitowoc County3
- Marathon County3
- Marinette County3
- Oneida County3
- Outagamie County3
- Pierce County3
- Polk County3
- Price County3
- Saint Croix County3
- Sawyer County3
- Vilas County3
- Washburn County3
- Winnebago County3
- Door County2
- Grant County2
- Kenosha County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Sheboygan County2
- Walworth County2
- Washington County2
- Milwaukee County1
- Waukesha County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.