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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2004
12 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- May9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20044 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Jackson and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darke, Mercer, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 7 hr |
| May 30, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Brown, Butler and 50 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Mercer, Paulding and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 9:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Brown and 56 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Meigs, Monroe and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darke | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 6:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 26 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Henry County5
- Paulding County5
- Clermont County5
- Defiance County4
- Fulton County4
- Putnam County4
- Van Wert County4
- Williams County4
- Wood County4
- Adams County4
- Brown County4
- Gallia County4
- Jackson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Pike County4
- Scioto County4
- Vinton County4
- Darke County4
- Butler County4
- Hamilton County4
- Montgomery County4
- Preble County4
- Warren County4
- Erie County3
- Hancock County3
- Ottawa County3
- Sandusky County3
- Seneca County3
- Athens County3
- Meigs County3
- Mercer County3
- Champaign County3
- Clark County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Fairfield County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Highland County3
37 more counties
- Hocking County3
- Licking County3
- Madison County3
- Miami County3
- Morrow County3
- Pickaway County3
- Ross County3
- Union County3
- Lucas County2
- Allen County2
- Ashland County2
- Auglaize County2
- Crawford County2
- Hardin County2
- Huron County2
- Knox County2
- Logan County2
- Marion County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Wyandot County2
- Morgan County2
- Coshocton County1
- Holmes County1
- Medina County1
- Muskingum County1
- Perry County1
- Portage County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Wayne County1
- Belmont County1
- Guernsey County1
- Monroe County1
- Noble County1
- Washington 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.