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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this high wind watch at Dec 23, 2025, 7:51 AM PST for 14 counties in Washington. It took effect at Dec 24, 2025, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2025, 7:51 AM PST (15:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2025, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2025, 8:09 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
Counties Clallam County, WA, Grays Harbor County, WA, Island County, WA, Jefferson County, WA, King County, WA, Kitsap County, WA, Lewis County, WA, Mason County, WA, Pierce County, WA, San Juan County, WA, Skagit County, WA, Snohomish County, WA, Thurston County, WA, Whatcom County, WA
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Dec 23, 4:12 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 4:12 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:26 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SEW | Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 23, 2:41 AM PST | Gale Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Dec 23, 2:14 PM PST | Gale Warning | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Dec 23, 2:14 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 29 hr | |
| Dec 23, 2:26 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | SEW | Island, King, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and 1 more | 22 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.