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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 1997
7 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- July4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 2, 19973 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 28, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll and 49 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Darke, Defiance and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Clinton, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Defiance, Erie and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Clinton County4
- Warren County4
- Allen County4
- Auglaize County4
- Hardin County4
- Mercer County4
- Seneca County4
- Brown County3
- Clermont County3
- Hamilton County3
- Highland County3
- Montgomery County3
- Preble County3
- Champaign County3
- Darke County3
- Logan County3
- Shelby County3
- Ashland County3
- Crawford County3
- Defiance County3
- Erie County3
- Fulton County3
- Hancock County3
- Henry County3
- Huron County3
- Lorain County3
- Lucas County3
- Medina County3
- Ottawa County3
- Paulding County3
- Putnam County3
- Sandusky County3
- Van Wert County3
- Williams County3
- Wood County3
- Wyandot County3
- Adams County2
- Clark County2
- Fayette County2
45 more counties
- Greene County2
- Madison County2
- Pickaway County2
- Pike County2
- Ross County2
- Miami County2
- Ashtabula County2
- Coshocton County2
- Cuyahoga County2
- Delaware County2
- Geauga County2
- Guernsey County2
- Holmes County2
- Knox County2
- Lake County2
- Licking County2
- Marion County2
- Morrow County2
- Muskingum County2
- Portage County2
- Richland County2
- Stark County2
- Summit County2
- Trumbull County2
- Tuscarawas County2
- Union County2
- Wayne County2
- Hocking County2
- Belmont County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Harrison County1
- Jefferson County1
- Mahoning County1
- Fairfield County1
- Franklin County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Athens County1
- Gallia County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meigs County1
- Scioto County1
- Vinton County1
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. Rebuilt daily.