Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 2003
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20033 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lawrence County4
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Clermont County2
- Clinton County2
- Fairfield County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallia County2
- Greene County2
- Guernsey County2
- Highland County2
- Hocking County2
- Jackson County2
- Licking County2
- Madison County2
- Noble County2
- Perry County2
- Pickaway County2
- Pike County2
- Ross County2
- Scioto County2
- Vinton County2
- Warren County2
- Athens County1
- Meigs County1
- Morgan County1
- Muskingum County1
- Butler County1
- Darke County1
- Delaware County1
- Hamilton County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Preble County1
- Shelby County1
- Union County1
- Defiance 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.