Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2026
9 tornado watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- March5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20263 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 19, 1:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Greene and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:23 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:22 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 38 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Hocking and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll and 61 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Gallia, Highland, Jackson and 5 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County5
- Pike County5
- Scioto County5
- Greene County4
- Montgomery County4
- Preble County4
- Ross County4
- Brown County4
- Highland County4
- Butler County3
- Champaign County3
- Clark County3
- Clinton County3
- Darke County3
- Miami County3
- Warren County3
- Ashtabula County3
- Athens County3
- Belmont County3
- Carroll County3
- Columbiana County3
- Coshocton County3
- Fairfield County3
- Gallia County3
- Guernsey County3
- Harrison County3
- Hocking County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Licking County3
- Mahoning County3
- Meigs County3
- Monroe County3
- Muskingum County3
- Noble County3
- Stark County3
- Trumbull County3
- Tuscarawas County3
- Vinton County3
- Allen County3
48 more counties
- Clermont County3
- Fayette County3
- Hamilton County3
- Putnam County3
- Van Wert County3
- Morgan County2
- Perry County2
- Washington County2
- Auglaize County2
- Delaware County2
- Franklin County2
- Hardin County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Mercer County2
- Pickaway County2
- Shelby County2
- Union County2
- Ashland County2
- Crawford County2
- Cuyahoga County2
- Erie County2
- Geauga County2
- Hancock County2
- Holmes County2
- Huron County2
- Knox County2
- Lake County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lorain County2
- Marion County2
- Medina County2
- Morrow County2
- Portage County2
- Richland County2
- Seneca County2
- Summit County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyandot County2
- Defiance County2
- Fulton County2
- Henry County2
- Paulding County2
- Williams County2
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sandusky County1
- Wood County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.