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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2023
11 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 27, 20232 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 27, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Jackson and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Lawrence and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:41 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Auglaize, Butler, Darke, Hamilton, Mercer, Miami and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 40 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton, Williams | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Clermont, Fairfield and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 38 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clermont County5
- Hamilton County5
- Adams County4
- Allen County4
- Auglaize County4
- Brown County4
- Butler County4
- Darke County4
- Hardin County4
- Highland County4
- Licking County4
- Logan County4
- Mercer County4
- Miami County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pike County4
- Preble County4
- Scioto County4
- Shelby County4
- Van Wert County4
- Warren County4
- Champaign County3
- Clark County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Fairfield County3
- Greene County3
- Hocking County3
- Knox County3
- Marion County3
- Morrow County3
- Pickaway County3
- Ross County3
- Union County3
- Belmont County3
- Guernsey County3
- Lawrence County3
- Monroe County3
- Muskingum County3
- Noble County3
48 more counties
- Paulding County3
- Putnam County3
- Fulton County3
- Williams County3
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Madison County2
- Athens County2
- Coshocton County2
- Gallia County2
- Jackson County2
- Meigs County2
- Morgan County2
- Perry County2
- Vinton County2
- Washington County2
- Defiance County2
- Henry County2
- Crawford County2
- Erie County2
- Hancock County2
- Huron County2
- Lucas County2
- Ottawa County2
- Richland County2
- Sandusky County2
- Seneca County2
- Wood County2
- Wyandot County2
- Ashland County1
- Ashtabula County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Geauga County1
- Harrison County1
- Holmes County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lake County1
- Lorain County1
- Mahoning County1
- Medina County1
- Portage County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Trumbull County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Wayne 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.