Analysis Of Severe Weather
Initiation Times Across Wisconsin
For The Period 1982 - 2009

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text equivalent of the graphics listed below: 

Note: In this local study, the initiation time could be one of two things...

  1. Storm event originated in a Wisconsin county.
  2. Storm event could have originated in an out-of-state county...but when this event crossed the state line....this time became the "initiation" time in a Wisconsin county.

Hourly Distribution:

Initiation hours of tornadoes
Initiation hours of severe thunderstorms
Initiation hours of hail
Initiation hours of flash floods
Initiation hours of funnel clouds
Initiation hours of waterspouts

Monthly Distribution:


Initiation months of tornadoes
Initiation months of severe storms
Initiation months of hail
Initiation months of flash floods
Initiation months of funnels
Initiation months of waterspouts

Produced by:
Courtney Obergfell-SCEP
Rusty Kapela - Warning Coordination Meteorologist
at the NWS Office at Milwaukee/Sullivan, Wisconsin
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