Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2012
5 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20121 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 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Chippewa and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Washburn | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer, Washburn | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barron County5
- Polk County4
- Washburn County4
- Dunn County3
- Pepin County3
- Pierce County3
- Rusk County3
- Saint Croix County3
- Burnett County3
- Buffalo County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clark County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Jackson County2
- La Crosse County2
- Taylor County2
- Trempealeau County2
- Sawyer County2
- Adams County1
- Ashland County1
- Bayfield County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Iron County1
- Juneau County1
- Langlade County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marathon County1
- Monroe County1
- Oneida County1
- Portage County1
- Price County1
- Vernon County1
- Vilas County1
- Wood County1
- Douglas County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20112013
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.