Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2022
6 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- May4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 30, 20221 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 30, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Rock and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 9, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Crawford and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Pepin, Trempealeau | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Crawford and 48 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Trempealeau County4
- Dane County3
- Green County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lafayette County3
- Rock County3
- Walworth County3
- Buffalo County3
- Pepin County3
- Clark County3
- Jackson County3
- Barron County2
- Chippewa County2
- Dunn County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Pierce County2
- Polk County2
- Rusk County2
- Saint Croix County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Calumet County2
- Columbia County2
- Crawford County2
- Dodge County2
- Door County2
- Florence County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Forest County2
- Grant County2
- Green Lake County2
- Juneau County2
- Kewaunee County2
- Langlade County2
- Lincoln County2
- Manitowoc County2
- Marathon County2
- Marinette County2
- Marquette County2
27 more counties
- Menominee County2
- Monroe County2
- Oconto County2
- Oneida County2
- Outagamie County2
- Portage County2
- Richland County2
- Sauk County2
- Shawano County2
- Vernon County2
- Waupaca County2
- Waushara County2
- Winnebago County2
- Wood County2
- Taylor County2
- Burnett County1
- Sawyer County1
- Washburn County1
- Kenosha County1
- La Crosse County1
- Milwaukee County1
- Ozaukee County1
- Racine County1
- Sheboygan County1
- Vilas County1
- Washington 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.