Weather alerts in Vilas County, Wisconsin

2,131 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Vilas County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 2,131
Warnings: 434
Watches: 280
Advisories: 692
Busiest year: 2017124 alerts
Average year: 53over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	233
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	116
Tornado Watch	41
Mesoscale Discussion	367
Special Weather Statement	358
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Warning	3
River Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Watch	6
Flood Watch	6
Areal Flood Advisory	18
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	3
Lake Effect Snow Warning	4
Winter Storm Warning	84
Lake Effect Snow Watch	5
Winter Storm Watch	80
Freezing Rain Advisory	20
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	19
Snow Advisory	15
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	243
Heat
Heat Advisory	8
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	60
Wind Chill Warning	15
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	10
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	104
Wind Chill Advisory	123
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	29
Fire
Red Flag Warning	11
Fire Weather Watch	8
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	100
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	55 min
May 18, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	56 min
May 14, 11:38 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	GRB	33 hr
Apr 17, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	32 min
Apr 17, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	32 min
Apr 17, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	17 min
Apr 3, 2:30 AM CDT	Ice Storm Warning	GRB	32 hr
Apr 1, 3:16 AM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	40 hr
Mar 14, 1:13 PM CDT	Blizzard Warning	GRB	56 hr
Mar 13, 12:59 PM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	49 hr
Mar 12, 1:42 AM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	35 hr
Mar 10, 1:01 PM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	24 hr

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. Rebuilt daily.