Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2017
5 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- March3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20172 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 28, 11:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fairfield and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 12:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 35 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allen County3
- Auglaize County3
- Butler County3
- Darke County3
- Hamilton County3
- Mercer County3
- Miami County3
- Montgomery County3
- Preble County3
- Shelby County3
- Van Wert County3
- Warren County3
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Clermont County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Fairfield County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Hardin County2
- Highland County2
- Hocking County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Pickaway County2
- Pike County2
- Putnam County2
- Ross County2
- Scioto County2
- Union County2
- Defiance County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Henry County1
- Licking County1
- Paulding County1
- Williams County1
30 more counties
- Ashtabula County1
- Belmont County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Harrison County1
- Jefferson County1
- Mahoning County1
- Monroe County1
- Trumbull County1
- Washington County1
- Ashland County1
- Crawford County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Erie County1
- Hancock County1
- Holmes County1
- Huron County1
- Knox County1
- Lorain County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Medina County1
- Morrow County1
- Ottawa County1
- Richland County1
- Sandusky County1
- Seneca County1
- Wayne County1
- Wood County1
- Wyandot 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.