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Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2025
6 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- March3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 15, 20251 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Auglaize, Butler, Darke, Hamilton, Mercer, Miami and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Brown, Butler and 54 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 3 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Hamilton County4
- Miami County4
- Montgomery County4
- Preble County4
- Warren County4
- Auglaize County3
- Darke County3
- Mercer County3
- Shelby County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Champaign County3
- Clark County3
- Clermont County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Fairfield County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Highland County3
- Hocking County3
- Licking County3
- Madison County3
- Pickaway County3
- Pike County3
- Ross County3
- Scioto County3
- Union County3
- Athens County2
- Belmont County2
- Carroll County2
- Columbiana County2
- Gallia County2
- Guernsey County2
- Harrison County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Meigs County2
48 more counties
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Noble County2
- Perry County2
- Tuscarawas County2
- Vinton County2
- Hardin County2
- Logan County2
- Ashtabula County1
- Coshocton County1
- Geauga County1
- Lake County1
- Mahoning County1
- Muskingum County1
- Portage County1
- Stark County1
- Summit County1
- Trumbull County1
- Washington County1
- Allen County1
- Ashland County1
- Crawford County1
- Cuyahoga County1
- Defiance County1
- Erie County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henry County1
- Holmes County1
- Huron County1
- Knox County1
- Lorain County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Medina County1
- Morrow County1
- Ottawa County1
- Paulding County1
- Putnam County1
- Richland County1
- Sandusky County1
- Seneca County1
- Van Wert County1
- Wayne County1
- Williams County1
- Wood County1
- Wyandot County1
- Lawrence 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.