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Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1997

47 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
47
Busiest month
August22 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 16, 199714 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 6:01 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClinton, Fayette49 min
May 14, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningILNPickaway, Ross48 min
May 14, 7:09 PM EDTTornado WarningILNHocking61 min
May 18, 4:12 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMarion, Morrow48 min
May 18, 5:08 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland, Richland67 min
Jun 25, 8:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit52 min
Jul 2, 5:46 PM EDTTornado WarningILNPreble49 min
Jul 2, 6:13 PM EDTTornado WarningILNFranklin62 min
Jul 2, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningILNMontgomery30 min
Jul 2, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningILNButler, Warren47 min
Jul 2, 6:52 PM EDTTornado WarningILNGreene48 min
Jul 2, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WarningILNHamilton33 min
Jul 2, 7:40 PM EDTTornado WarningILNWarren35 min
Jul 2, 7:58 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClermont47 min
Jul 2, 8:29 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBrown51 min
Jul 2, 9:20 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBrown45 min
Jul 2, 10:08 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula52 min
Jul 26, 7:08 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLicking62 min
Jul 26, 7:43 PM EDTTornado WarningILNFairfield62 min
Jul 26, 8:08 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLicking22 min
Jul 26, 8:40 PM EDTTornado WarningILNFairfield65 min
Jul 26, 9:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEKnox41 min
Jul 26, 10:02 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLicking48 min
Jul 26, 10:52 PM EDTTornado WarningILNFairfield48 min
Jul 26, 10:56 PM EDTTornado WarningILNVan Wert64 min
Aug 3, 10:15 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELucas, Wood60 min
Aug 4, 8:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain26 min
Aug 4, 8:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHuron47 min
Aug 16, 4:12 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain33 min
Aug 16, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga38 min
Aug 16, 4:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain, Medina55 min
Aug 16, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull45 min
Aug 16, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMedina60 min
Aug 16, 5:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull42 min
Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit66 min
Aug 16, 6:16 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull59 min
Aug 16, 6:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain, Medina60 min
Aug 16, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne61 min
Aug 16, 6:47 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland43 min
Aug 16, 7:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark55 min
Aug 16, 7:12 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit48 min
Aug 16, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland49 min
Aug 17, 12:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWood46 min
Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLicking47 min
Aug 17, 3:14 PM EDTTornado WarningILNAdams61 min
Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDTTornado WarningILNHamilton64 min
Aug 21, 9:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain54 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 16, 199714tornado warnings
  2. July 2, 19978tornado warnings
  3. July 27, 19976tornado warnings
  4. August 17, 19974tornado warnings
  5. May 14, 19973tornado warnings
  6. July 3, 19973tornado warnings
  7. May 18, 19972tornado warnings
  8. July 26, 19972tornado warnings
  9. August 5, 19972tornado warnings
  10. June 26, 19971tornado warnings
  11. August 4, 19971tornado warnings
  12. August 22, 19971tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.