Excessive Heat Watches in Oregon
66 excessive heat watches since 1986. 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 66
- Busiest year
- 202117 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 16 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County18
- Curry County17
- Josephine County17
- Coos County13
- Douglas County13
- Gilliam County11
- Morrow County11
- Sherman County11
- Umatilla County11
- Wasco County11
- Wheeler County10
- Jefferson County9
- Malheur County9
- Grant County8
- Crook County7
- Deschutes County7
- Baker County7
- Klamath County6
- Harney County6
- Union County5
- Wallowa County4
- Lake County3
- Benton County1
- Clackamas County1
- Clatsop County1
- Columbia County1
- Hood River County1
- Lane County1
- Lincoln County1
- Linn County1
- Marion County1
- Multnomah County1
- Polk County1
- Tillamook County1
- Washington County1
- Yamhill 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. Rebuilt daily.