Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, May 2012
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20121 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barron County2
- Dunn County2
- Pepin County2
- Pierce County2
- Saint Croix County2
- Washburn County2
- Burnett County1
- Polk County1
- Adams County1
- Ashland County1
- Bayfield County1
- Buffalo County1
- Chippewa County1
- Clark County1
- Eau Claire County1
- Florence County1
- Forest County1
- Iron County1
- Jackson County1
- Juneau County1
- La Crosse County1
- Langlade County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marathon County1
- Monroe County1
- Oneida County1
- Portage County1
- Price County1
- Rusk County1
- Sawyer County1
- Taylor County1
- Trempealeau County1
- Vernon County1
- Vilas County1
- Wood 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.