Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 1998
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 31, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Athens County2
- Gallia County2
- Hocking County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Meigs County2
- Morgan County2
- Vinton County2
- Washington County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Fayette County1
- Highland County1
- Pickaway County1
- Pike County1
- Ross County1
- Scioto County1
- Ashland County1
- Ashtabula County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Coshocton County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Erie County1
- Geauga County1
- Holmes County1
- Huron County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- Licking County1
- Lorain County1
- Mahoning County1
- Medina County1
- Morrow County1
- Portage County1
- Richland County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Trumbull County1
- Tuscarawas 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. Rebuilt daily.