Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, May 1998
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 31, 19983 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lawrence, Scioto | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign and 51 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Franklin, Guernsey and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Crawford and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Crawford, Darke, Defiance and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 16 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Delaware County6
- Franklin County6
- Madison County6
- Champaign County5
- Hardin County5
- Marion County5
- Miami County5
- Union County5
- Auglaize County4
- Butler County4
- Clark County4
- Clinton County4
- Darke County4
- Fayette County4
- Greene County4
- Logan County4
- Mercer County4
- Montgomery County4
- Morrow County4
- Pickaway County4
- Preble County4
- Scioto County4
- Shelby County4
- Warren County4
- Crawford County4
- Hancock County4
- Knox County4
- Licking County4
- Sandusky County4
- Seneca County4
- Wyandot County4
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Clermont County3
- Hamilton County3
- Highland County3
- Lawrence County3
- Pike County3
- Ross County3
- Allen County3
47 more counties
- Ashland County3
- Coshocton County3
- Defiance County3
- Henry County3
- Holmes County3
- Huron County3
- Paulding County3
- Portage County3
- Putnam County3
- Richland County3
- Stark County3
- Summit County3
- Tuscarawas County3
- Van Wert County3
- Wayne County3
- Wood County3
- Jackson County2
- Athens County2
- Fairfield County2
- Guernsey County2
- Hocking County2
- Medina County2
- Muskingum County2
- Noble County2
- Perry County2
- Washington County2
- Carroll County2
- Columbiana County2
- Mahoning County2
- Trumbull County2
- Erie County2
- Morgan County1
- Gallia County1
- Meigs County1
- Vinton County1
- Belmont County1
- Harrison County1
- Jefferson County1
- Ashtabula County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Geauga County1
- Lake County1
- Lorain County1
- Fulton County1
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Williams County1
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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.