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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2024

18 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
April6 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 2, 20243 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 10:29 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 10 more10 hr
Feb 28, 4:40 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Athens, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette and 21 more5 hr
Mar 14, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 48 more7 hr
Mar 14, 8:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBelmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe and 5 more3 hr
Mar 14, 10:17 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Pike, Scioto4 hr
Apr 2, 10:20 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCLawrence3 hr
Apr 2, 3:49 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 23 more6 hr
Apr 2, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAthens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia and 14 more4 hr
Apr 11, 4:06 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAthens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Jackson and 8 more5 hr
Apr 17, 12:18 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 45 more7 hr
Apr 17, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAshtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 17 more7 hr
May 7, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 12 more6 hr
May 7, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more8 hr
May 7, 9:17 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAshland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 21 more7 hr
May 26, 11:06 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Clermont, Hamilton7 hr
Jun 29, 1:11 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBelmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 12 more7 hr
Jul 9, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Clermont, Hamilton, Preble, Warren10 hr
Aug 6, 8:04 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCFulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and 2 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

48 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 2, 20243tornado watches
  2. February 28, 20242tornado watches
  3. March 15, 20242tornado watches
  4. April 17, 20242tornado watches
  5. May 7, 20242tornado watches
  6. March 14, 20241tornado watches
  7. April 11, 20241tornado watches
  8. May 8, 20241tornado watches
  9. May 27, 20241tornado watches
  10. June 29, 20241tornado watches
  11. July 9, 20241tornado watches
  12. August 6, 20241tornado watches

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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.