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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 1998
16 tornado watches in 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- April8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19985 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Scioto | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Brown, Butler and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallia, Lawrence, Scioto | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Brown, Carroll, Coshocton and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Fayette, Gallia, Highland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Fairfield, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Darke, Defiance, Fulton and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Williams | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 32 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scioto County7
- Butler County7
- Fayette County7
- Hamilton County7
- Highland County7
- Adams County6
- Brown County6
- Clinton County6
- Franklin County6
- Madison County6
- Montgomery County6
- Pike County6
- Preble County6
- Ross County6
- Warren County6
- Vinton County6
- Clark County5
- Clermont County5
- Darke County5
- Fairfield County5
- Greene County5
- Miami County5
- Morrow County5
- Pickaway County5
- Hocking County5
- Jackson County5
- Gallia County5
- Washington County5
- Ashland County4
- Auglaize County4
- Champaign County4
- Delaware County4
- Knox County4
- Licking County4
- Richland County4
- Shelby County4
- Union County4
- Perry County4
- Lawrence County4
- Athens County4
48 more counties
- Guernsey County4
- Meigs County4
- Morgan County4
- Noble County4
- Allen County3
- Coshocton County3
- Crawford County3
- Holmes County3
- Logan County3
- Marion County3
- Wayne County3
- Mercer County3
- Carroll County3
- Cuyahoga County3
- Erie County3
- Huron County3
- Lorain County3
- Medina County3
- Muskingum County3
- Trumbull County3
- Belmont County3
- Monroe County3
- Hardin County2
- Wyandot County2
- Geauga County2
- Lake County2
- Portage County2
- Stark County2
- Summit County2
- Tuscarawas County2
- Ashtabula County2
- Columbiana County2
- Mahoning County2
- Harrison County2
- Jefferson County2
- Defiance County2
- Fulton County2
- Hancock County2
- Henry County2
- Paulding County2
- Putnam County2
- Van Wert County2
- Williams County2
- Wood County2
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sandusky County1
- Seneca 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.