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Tornado Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2026, 4:52 PM EDT for 67 counties in Ohio; 14 counties in Pennsylvania; 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2026, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 86 counties
Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Henry County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Williams | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Portage, Summit | 32 min |
| Mar 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 17 min |
| Mar 26, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Williams | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 21 min |
| Mar 26, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Lucas, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood, Wyandot | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Putnam, Van Wert | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Trumbull | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Ottawa, Sandusky and 1 more | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Hancock, Huron, Marion, Morrow, Richland and 3 more | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 8:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes | 20 min |
| Mar 26, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Wyandot | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Shelby, Union | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Shelby | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 8:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow, Richland | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Miami, Montgomery and 2 more | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Muskingum, Noble and 1 more | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 9:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darke, Defiance, Mercer, Paulding, Van Wert, Williams | 117 min |
| Mar 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont and 61 more | 95 min |
| Mar 26, 7:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 32 more | 95 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.