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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2002
13 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- November5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 10, 20024 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 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Brown and 62 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| May 9, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 10:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton, Lucas, Sandusky, Wood | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Henry and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Washington | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Trumbull County6
- Geauga County5
- Mahoning County5
- Portage County5
- Lawrence County5
- Pike County5
- Ashtabula County4
- Carroll County4
- Columbiana County4
- Cuyahoga County4
- Lake County4
- Stark County4
- Summit County4
- Adams County4
- Jackson County4
- Ross County4
- Scioto County4
- Vinton County4
- Ashland County3
- Athens County3
- Belmont County3
- Brown County3
- Butler County3
- Clermont County3
- Clinton County3
- Coshocton County3
- Fairfield County3
- Gallia County3
- Hamilton County3
- Harrison County3
- Highland County3
- Hocking County3
- Holmes County3
- Jefferson County3
- Knox County3
- Licking County3
- Logan County3
- Lorain County3
- Medina County3
- Meigs County3
48 more counties
- Monroe County3
- Muskingum County3
- Noble County3
- Perry County3
- Pickaway County3
- Richland County3
- Tuscarawas County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Wood County3
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Crawford County2
- Delaware County2
- Erie County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Guernsey County2
- Huron County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Morrow County2
- Seneca County2
- Union County2
- Wyandot County2
- Fulton County2
- Lucas County2
- Sandusky County2
- Allen County2
- Auglaize County2
- Darke County2
- Putnam County2
- Defiance County1
- Henry County1
- Mercer County1
- Paulding County1
- Van Wert County1
- Williams County1
- Miami County1
- Preble County1
- Shelby County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Ottawa 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.