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Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2025
9 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20252 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 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Clark, Crawford, Forest, Jackson, Juneau and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burnett, Douglas, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix, Washburn | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge and 31 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County5
- La Crosse County5
- Monroe County5
- Richland County5
- Vernon County5
- Buffalo County4
- Trempealeau County4
- Adams County4
- Crawford County4
- Juneau County4
- Burnett County3
- Pepin County3
- Pierce County3
- Polk County3
- Saint Croix County3
- Washburn County3
- Portage County3
- Waupaca County3
- Waushara County3
- Wood County3
- Dane County3
- Green County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Kenosha County3
- Lafayette County3
- Milwaukee County3
- Racine County3
- Rock County3
- Walworth County3
- Waukesha County3
- Barron County2
- Chippewa County2
- Dunn County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Rusk County2
- Sawyer County2
- Clark County2
- Forest County2
- Langlade County2
32 more counties
- Lincoln County2
- Marathon County2
- Marinette County2
- Menominee County2
- Oconto County2
- Shawano County2
- Taylor County2
- Douglas County2
- Brown County2
- Calumet County2
- Columbia County2
- Dodge County2
- Fond du Lac County2
- Green Lake County2
- Kewaunee County2
- Manitowoc County2
- Marquette County2
- Outagamie County2
- Ozaukee County2
- Sauk County2
- Sheboygan County2
- Washington County2
- Winnebago County2
- Ashland County1
- Bayfield County1
- Iron County1
- Price County1
- Door County1
- Florence County1
- Grant County1
- Oneida County1
- Vilas 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.