Alert archive / Wisconsin / Vilas County
Weather alerts in Vilas County, Wisconsin, 2008
87 weather alerts in 2008, 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 in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 87
- Warnings
- 22
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 34
- Busiest month
- July14 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20084 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Vilas County, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 10 | 5 | 50% | 11 | 73% | 19 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Green Bay, WI: tornado warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 5 | 40% | 13 min |
| NWS Green Bay, WI: severe thunderstorm warnings | 102 | 51 | 50% | 109 | 83% | 23 min |
| NWS Green Bay, WI: flash flood warnings | 8 | 5 | 38% | 22 | 68% | 57 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 1:57 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | GRB | 34 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:26 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | GRB | 18 hr |
| Jan 15, 9:02 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | GRB | 18 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:09 PM CST | Snow Advisory | GRB | 27 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:09 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | 33 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:28 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 57 hr |
| Jan 28, 5:19 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 29 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:04 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | 35 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 30, 2:34 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | GRB | 9 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:58 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 9 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:07 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 26 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:32 AM CST | Snow Advisory | GRB | 16 hr |
| Feb 8, 4:32 AM CST | Wind Chill Watch | GRB | 24 hr |
| Feb 9, 4:10 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | GRB | 32 hr |
| Feb 9, 4:10 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 19 hr |
| Feb 10, 11:53 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 16 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:48 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | GRB | 21 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:17 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | GRB | 29 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:59 AM CST | Snow Advisory | GRB | 11 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:09 PM CST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | GRB | 31 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:47 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 29 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:02 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 18 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:49 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | GRB | 11 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | 39 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:39 AM CDT | Snow Advisory | GRB | 23 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:49 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | GRB | 25 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:20 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | 50 hr |
| Apr 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:22 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | GRB | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 64 min |
| Apr 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 9:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | 9 hr |
| May 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| May 18, 3:03 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | 28 hr |
| May 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | GRB | 10 hr |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 38 min |
| May 25, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 48 min |
| May 25, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 19 min |
| May 26, 2:59 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | GRB | 16 hr |
| May 27, 3:27 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | GRB | 12 hr |
| May 27, 3:07 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | GRB | 16 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 10:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 2:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 6, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 67 min |
| Jul 11, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 11, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jul 25, 11:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jul 25, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | 81 min |
| Jul 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Aug 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | 18 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Sep 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | 15 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:46 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | 16 hr |
| Sep 20, 4:19 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | 18 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:33 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 8 hr |
| Nov 2, 8:37 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | GRB | 12 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:11 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 10 hr |
| Nov 16, 4:08 AM CST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | GRB | 44 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:21 PM CST | Lake Effect Snow Watch | GRB | 18 hr |
| Nov 19, 9:34 AM CST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | GRB | 44 hr |
| Dec 6, 9:53 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 14 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:52 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 47 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:07 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 50 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:06 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 60 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:48 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | 17 hr |
| Dec 22, 11:08 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 28 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:46 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 34 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:23 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | GRB | 22 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:35 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 19 hr |
| Dec 29, 3:55 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | 29 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.