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Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2013
9 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20132 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix | 8 hr |
| May 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet and 48 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Dane and 40 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Brown, Burnett, Calumet and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 17, 8:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 7 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County5
- Taylor County5
- Dane County5
- Green County5
- Rock County5
- Jackson County4
- Dodge County4
- Iowa County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lafayette County4
- Sauk County4
- Walworth County4
- Buffalo County3
- Polk County3
- Saint Croix County3
- Ashland County3
- Barron County3
- Burnett County3
- Chippewa County3
- Dunn County3
- Eau Claire County3
- La Crosse County3
- Price County3
- Rusk County3
- Sawyer County3
- Trempealeau County3
- Washburn County3
- Adams County3
- Columbia County3
- Crawford County3
- Grant County3
- Green Lake County3
- Juneau County3
- Marquette County3
- Monroe County3
- Richland County3
- Vernon County3
- Brown County3
- Calumet County3
- Forest County3
32 more counties
- Langlade County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marathon County3
- Marinette County3
- Menominee County3
- Oconto County3
- Oneida County3
- Outagamie County3
- Portage County3
- Shawano County3
- Waupaca County3
- Waushara County3
- Winnebago County3
- Wood County3
- Pepin County2
- Pierce County2
- Iron County2
- Florence County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Vilas County2
- Kenosha County2
- Kewaunee County2
- Manitowoc County2
- Milwaukee County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Racine County2
- Washington County2
- Waukesha County2
- Sheboygan County1
- Bayfield County1
- Door County1
- Douglas 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.