Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 2004
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20044 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Henry County5
- Paulding County5
- Defiance County4
- Fulton County4
- Putnam County4
- Van Wert County4
- Williams County4
- Wood County4
- Erie County3
- Hancock County3
- Ottawa County3
- Sandusky County3
- Seneca County3
- Adams County3
- Athens County3
- Brown County3
- Clermont County3
- Gallia County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Pike County3
- Scioto County3
- Vinton County3
- Darke County3
- Mercer County3
- Lucas County2
- Meigs County2
- Allen County2
- Ashland County2
- Auglaize County2
- Butler County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Clinton County2
- Crawford County2
- Delaware County2
- Fairfield County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
37 more counties
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Highland County2
- Hocking County2
- Huron County2
- Knox County2
- Licking County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Miami County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morrow County2
- Pickaway County2
- Preble County2
- Richland County2
- Ross County2
- Shelby County2
- Union County2
- Warren 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
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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.