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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2003
13 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- May6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20033 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 4, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Crawford, Darke, Hardin and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| May 11, 12:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert, Williams | 6 hr |
| May 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Brown and 50 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 12, 4:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie and 19 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Champaign County7
- Clark County7
- Darke County6
- Miami County6
- Clermont County6
- Clinton County6
- Fayette County6
- Franklin County6
- Greene County6
- Madison County6
- Warren County6
- Montgomery County5
- Preble County5
- Shelby County5
- Delaware County5
- Hamilton County5
- Union County5
- Fairfield County5
- Highland County5
- Lawrence County5
- Pickaway County5
- Ross County5
- Auglaize County4
- Hardin County4
- Logan County4
- Mercer County4
- Butler County4
- Hocking County4
- Jackson County4
- Licking County4
- Perry County4
- Pike County4
- Vinton County4
- Allen County3
- Crawford County3
- Marion County3
- Van Wert County3
- Wyandot County3
- Adams County3
- Athens County3
47 more counties
- Brown County3
- Gallia County3
- Guernsey County3
- Meigs County3
- Morgan County3
- Muskingum County3
- Noble County3
- Scioto County3
- Ashtabula County3
- Columbiana County3
- Mahoning County3
- Trumbull County3
- Hancock County3
- Morrow County3
- Defiance County2
- Paulding County2
- Williams County2
- Belmont County2
- Carroll County2
- Harrison County2
- Jefferson County2
- Wood County2
- Seneca County2
- Ashland County2
- Coshocton County2
- Cuyahoga County2
- Geauga County2
- Holmes County2
- Knox County2
- Lake County2
- Lorain County2
- Medina County2
- Portage County2
- Richland County2
- Stark County2
- Summit County2
- Wayne County2
- Monroe County1
- Fulton County1
- Henry County1
- Putnam County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Erie County1
- Huron County1
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sandusky 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.