Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of Wisconsin-Madison

UW-MadisonWIPublic R1WiscAlert~49,000 students

Cases: 8
Alerts: 18
Verbatim: 78%
Span: 1993–2024

Official alert policy

How UW-Madison says it will alert: when and how WiscAlerts activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

8 cases · 14 of 18 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2024

severe weather: 2024-05-21Tornado warning take shelter until 8:30pm CSTemergency notificationverbatim
severe weather: 2024-05-21Tornado warning take shelter until 8:00pmemergency notificationverbatim
aggravated assault: 2024-03-03Two students punched in the face by strangers in an unprovoked street assaulttimely warningverbatim

2023

2022

stabbing: 2022-12-04A knife attack near campus triggers a building lockdown lasting about an houremergency notification1 injuredverbatim

2020

covid 19: 2020-09-09Two residence halls housing 2,500 students quarantined for 14 days in a COVID-19 outbreakadvisoryverbatim

1993

evacuation: 1993-10-30Students crushed against a field fence after a football game; 69 injured, all survivedemergency notification69 injuredverbatim

By incident type

What UW-Madison has alerted about

severe weather · 2 Violent Threat · 2 aggravated assault · 1 evacuation · 1 Fire · 1 Public Health · 1

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