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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 1:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix8 hr
May 19, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshland, Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn and 10 more5 hr
May 19, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 19 more6 hr
May 30, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Ashland, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet and 48 more7 hr
May 30, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Dane and 40 more3 hr
Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCCrawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 6 more9 hr
Aug 6, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurnett, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix7 hr
Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshland, Barron, Bayfield, Brown, Burnett, Calumet and 30 more5 hr
Nov 17, 8:40 AM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCDane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 7 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

32 more counties

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.