Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Ohio, March 2026
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20263 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County3
- Ashtabula County3
- Belmont County3
- Carroll County3
- Columbiana County3
- Coshocton County3
- Fairfield County3
- Guernsey County3
- Harrison County3
- Hocking County3
- Jefferson County3
- Licking County3
- Mahoning County3
- Monroe County3
- Muskingum County3
- Noble County3
- Pike County3
- Ross County3
- Scioto County3
- Stark County3
- Trumbull County3
- Tuscarawas County3
- Athens County2
- Gallia County2
- Jackson County2
- Meigs County2
- Morgan County2
- Perry County2
- Vinton County2
- Washington County2
- Allen County2
- Auglaize County2
- Brown County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Clermont County2
- Darke County2
- Delaware County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
48 more counties
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Highland County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Mercer County2
- Miami County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pickaway County2
- Preble County2
- Putnam County2
- Shelby County2
- Union County2
- Van Wert County2
- Ashland County2
- Crawford County2
- Cuyahoga County2
- Erie County2
- Geauga County2
- Hancock County2
- Holmes County2
- Huron County2
- Knox County2
- Lake County2
- Lorain County2
- Marion County2
- Medina County2
- Morrow County2
- Portage County2
- Richland County2
- Seneca County2
- Summit County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyandot County2
- Butler County1
- Clinton County1
- Warren County1
- Lawrence County1
- Defiance County1
- Fulton County1
- Henry County1
- Lucas County1
- Ottawa County1
- Paulding County1
- Sandusky County1
- Williams County1
- Wood County1
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.