Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2025
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, May 2025
7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
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- Busiest day
- May 2, 20252 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 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Brown and 60 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 42 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland | 7 hr |
| May 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Paulding, Van Wert | 3 hr |
| May 16, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 18 more | 4 hr |
| May 16, 11:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Washington | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashland County4
- Belmont County4
- Carroll County4
- Columbiana County4
- Coshocton County4
- Crawford County4
- Guernsey County4
- Harrison County4
- Holmes County4
- Jefferson County4
- Knox County4
- Mahoning County4
- Medina County4
- Monroe County4
- Morrow County4
- Muskingum County4
- Noble County4
- Portage County4
- Richland County4
- Stark County4
- Summit County4
- Trumbull County4
- Tuscarawas County4
- Wayne County4
- Cuyahoga County3
- Huron County3
- Licking County3
- Lorain County3
- Seneca County3
- Adams County2
- Ashtabula County2
- Brown County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Clermont County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Erie County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
33 more counties
- Geauga County2
- Greene County2
- Highland County2
- Lake County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Sandusky County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wyandot County2
- Athens County1
- Fairfield County1
- Gallia County1
- Hocking County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meigs County1
- Morgan County1
- Ottawa County1
- Perry County1
- Pickaway County1
- Pike County1
- Ross County1
- Scioto County1
- Vinton County1
- Hardin County1
- Logan County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Hamilton County1
- Paulding County1
- Van Wert 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.