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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this winter storm warning at Mar 7, 2026, 11:47 PM PST for 4 counties in Washington. It took effect at Mar 8, 2026, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 34 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2026, 11:47 PM PST (07:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2026, 5:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2026, 2:37 AM PDT
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
Counties King County, WA, Skagit County, WA, Snohomish County, WA, Whatcom County, WA
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 7, 8:21 PM PST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 8:21 PM PST, 3 hours 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 12:45 PM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 4 more | 62 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:17 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Mar 8, 4:17 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 33 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2026Every winter storm warning in 2026
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.