Weather alerts in Washington

25,924 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 25,924
Warnings: 7,200
Watches: 3,318
Advisories: 13,029
Busiest year: 20221,483 alerts
Average year: 648over 40 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	857
Tornado Warning	45
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	47
Tornado Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	245
Special Weather Statement	2,042
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	194
Flash Flood Warning	333
Hydrologic Warning	1
River Flood Warning	1,479
Flash Flood Watch	89
Flood Watch	431
River Flood Watch	146
Areal Flood Advisory	922
River Flood Advisory	31
Winter
Blizzard Warning	31
Heavy Snow Warning	111
Ice Storm Warning	34
Snow Squall Warning	24
Winter Storm Warning	854
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	726
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	116
Snow Advisory	357
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	27
Winter Weather Advisory	2,185
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	67
Extreme Heat Warning	11
Excessive Heat Watch	67
Extreme Heat Watch	13
Heat Advisory	255
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	207
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	17
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	31
Wind Chill Watch	8
Cold Weather Advisory	30
Frost Advisory	112
Wind Chill Advisory	37
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	34
High Wind Warning	512
High Wind Watch	375
Blowing Dust Advisory	59
Dust Storm Advisory	38
Wind Advisory	1,444
Fire
Red Flag Warning	639
Fire Weather Watch	410
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	154
Ashfall Advisory	3
Dense Fog Advisory	663
Dense Smoke Advisory	3
Freezing Fog Advisory	175
Air Stagnation Outlook	3
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	37
High Surf Warning	61
Coastal Flood Watch	36
Tsunami Watch	1
Coastal Flood Advisory	308
High Surf Advisory	315
Tsunami Advisory	2
Beach Hazards Statement	74
Coastal Flood Statement	2
Marine
Gale Warning	1,491
Special Marine Warning	76
Storm Warning	81
Gale Watch	892
Storm Watch	41
Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory	12
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	31
Small Craft Advisory	4,550
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	553
Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	482
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	163
Marine Weather Statement	11

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 9:25 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		38 hr
Aug 29, 11:51 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Douglas, Grant, Lincoln	22 min
Aug 26, 1:30 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	OTX	Douglas, Grant, Okanogan	31 hr
Aug 22, 11:54 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Ferry	36 min
Aug 22, 11:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Stevens	35 min
Aug 22, 3:43 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	SEW	King, Lewis, Pierce, Skamania	11 hr
Aug 21, 1:02 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	SEW	Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more	31 hr
Aug 21, 11:57 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	PDT	Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Kittitas and 3 more	34 hr
Aug 21, 10:55 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more	44 hr
Aug 17, 2:32 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	OTX	Asotin, Columbia, Garfield	31 hr
Aug 14, 7:52 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	OTX	Asotin, Columbia, Garfield	25 hr
Aug 14, 4:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Chelan	3 hr

Nearby

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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.