Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 2008
5 tornado watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20084 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 11, 9:52 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs | 6 hr |
| May 31, 1:07 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 24 more | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark, Columbiana and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gallia County3
- Lawrence County3
- Meigs County3
- Hocking County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Noble County3
- Perry County3
- Washington County3
- Jackson County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Delaware County2
- Fairfield County2
- Franklin County2
- Hardin County2
- Licking County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Miami County2
- Shelby County2
- Union County2
- Belmont County2
- Athens County2
- Vinton County2
- Auglaize County1
- Brown County1
- Butler County1
- Clermont County1
- Clinton County1
- Darke County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Highland County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pickaway County1
- Pike County1
- Preble County1
19 more counties
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.