Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Maryland, 2025
4 tornado watches in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20252 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Garrett, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 30, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery and 3 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County3
- Allegany County2
- Garrett County2
- Anne Arundel County2
- Calvert County2
- Charles County2
- Frederick County2
- Howard County2
- Montgomery County2
- Prince George's County2
- Saint Mary's County2
- Baltimore County1
- Caroline County1
- Carroll County1
- Cecil County1
- Dorchester County1
- Harford County1
- Kent County1
- Queen Anne's County1
- Somerset County1
- Talbot County1
- Wicomico County1
- Worcester County1
- City of Baltimore1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.