Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 2002
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20021 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lawrence County3
- Adams County2
- Jackson County2
- Pike County2
- Ross County2
- Scioto County2
- Vinton County2
- Brown County1
- Butler County1
- Clermont County1
- Clinton County1
- Hamilton County1
- Highland County1
- Warren County1
- Ashland County1
- Ashtabula County1
- Athens County1
- Belmont County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Coshocton County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Fairfield County1
- Gallia County1
- Geauga County1
- Guernsey County1
- Harrison County1
- Hocking County1
- Holmes County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- Licking County1
- Lorain County1
- Mahoning County1
- Medina County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Muskingum 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.