Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Ohio, May 2024
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20242 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 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 11:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clermont, Hamilton | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County2
- Clermont County2
- Hamilton County2
- Allen County1
- Crawford County1
- Defiance County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henry County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Morrow County1
- Ottawa County1
- Paulding County1
- Putnam County1
- Sandusky County1
- Seneca County1
- Van Wert County1
- Williams County1
- Wood County1
- Wyandot County1
- Adams County1
- Auglaize County1
- Butler County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Darke County1
- Delaware County1
- Fairfield County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hardin County1
- Highland County1
- Hocking County1
- Licking County1
- Logan County1
- Madison County1
- Mercer County1
37 more counties
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pickaway County1
- Pike County1
- Preble County1
- Ross County1
- Scioto County1
- Shelby County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Ashland County1
- Athens County1
- Belmont County1
- Carroll County1
- Columbiana County1
- Coshocton County1
- Gallia County1
- Guernsey County1
- Harrison County1
- Holmes County1
- Huron County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Muskingum County1
- Noble County1
- Perry County1
- Richland County1
- Stark County1
- Tuscarawas County1
- Vinton County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.