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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2012
8 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 29, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 8:27 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Pike and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll and 43 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:02 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Williams | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 3:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Butler, Clark and 30 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County5
- Brown County5
- Highland County5
- Pike County5
- Ross County5
- Scioto County5
- Clermont County4
- Hamilton County4
- Clinton County4
- Fayette County4
- Pickaway County4
- Athens County3
- Fairfield County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallia County3
- Hocking County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Licking County3
- Madison County3
- Meigs County3
- Morgan County3
- Perry County3
- Vinton County3
- Washington County3
- Butler County3
- Greene County3
- Montgomery County3
- Preble County3
- Warren County3
- Belmont County2
- Delaware County2
- Guernsey County2
- Monroe County2
- Muskingum County2
- Noble County2
- Clark County2
- Williams County2
- Ashland County1
- Carroll County1
34 more counties
- Columbiana County1
- Coshocton County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Harrison County1
- Holmes County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Lorain County1
- Mahoning County1
- Medina County1
- Morrow County1
- Portage County1
- Richland County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Trumbull County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Wayne County1
- Auglaize County1
- Champaign County1
- Darke County1
- Hardin County1
- Logan County1
- Mercer County1
- Miami County1
- Shelby County1
- Union County1
- Defiance County1
- Fulton County1
- Henry County1
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sandusky County1
- Wood 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.