Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Ohio, April 1998
8 tornado watches in April 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19985 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scioto County5
- Adams County4
- Brown County4
- Butler County4
- Clermont County4
- Clinton County4
- Fayette County4
- Franklin County4
- Hamilton County4
- Highland County4
- Madison County4
- Pike County4
- Ross County4
- Warren County4
- Clark County3
- Delaware County3
- Fairfield County3
- Greene County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morrow County3
- Pickaway County3
- Preble County3
- Union County3
- Vinton County3
- Ashland County2
- Auglaize County2
- Champaign County2
- Coshocton County2
- Crawford County2
- Darke County2
- Holmes County2
- Knox County2
- Licking County2
- Logan County2
- Marion County2
- Miami County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Wayne County2
- Hocking County2
28 more counties
- Jackson County2
- Perry County2
- Gallia County2
- Lawrence County2
- Allen County1
- Hardin County1
- Wyandot County1
- Mercer County1
- Athens County1
- Carroll County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Erie County1
- Geauga County1
- Guernsey County1
- Huron County1
- Lake County1
- Lorain County1
- Medina County1
- Meigs County1
- Morgan County1
- Muskingum County1
- Noble County1
- Portage County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Trumbull County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Washington County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.