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Tornado Warnings in Ohio, May 2024
37 tornado warnings in May 2024. 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 37
- Busiest day
- May 8, 202424 tornado warnings
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 7, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Paulding | 24 min |
| May 7, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Mercer | 29 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Paulding | 35 min |
| May 7, 8:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke | 40 min |
| May 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 7, 8:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Logan, Mercer, Shelby | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Preble | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 42 min |
| May 7, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami, Shelby | 41 min |
| May 7, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 7, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler, Preble | 23 min |
| May 7, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Logan | 14 min |
| May 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler | 28 min |
| May 7, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Champaign, Madison, Union | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 24 min |
| May 7, 10:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Warren | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Warren | 20 min |
| May 7, 10:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clinton | 24 min |
| May 7, 10:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clinton | 21 min |
| May 7, 10:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin, Licking | 36 min |
| May 7, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 30 min |
| May 8, 12:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Columbiana, Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 30 min |
| May 11, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 35 min |
| May 11, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 46 min |
| May 11, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 31 min |
| May 11, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 27 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 21 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Richland | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 13 min |
| May 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 15 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Paulding County3
- Mercer County3
- Auglaize County3
- Logan County3
- Mahoning County3
- Darke County2
- Henry County2
- Putnam County2
- Shelby County2
- Preble County2
- Miami County2
- Champaign County2
- Madison County2
- Union County2
- Delaware County2
- Franklin County2
- Warren County2
- Clinton County2
- Licking County2
- Columbiana County2
- Belmont County2
- Defiance County1
- Adams County1
- Hancock County1
- Wood County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Portage County1
- Montgomery County1
- Lawrence County1
- Ashland County1
- Crawford County1
- Huron County1
- Richland County1
- Monroe County1
- Erie County1
- Lorain 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. Rebuilt daily.