Alert archive / Washington

Weather alerts in Washington, 1996

39 weather alerts in 1996, 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 in 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
39
Warnings
39
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July7 alerts
Busiest day
August 2, 19966 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 15, 4:06 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark69 min
Jan 15, 4:48 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRSkamania57 min
Jan 15, 5:23 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark67 min
Jan 15, 5:23 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRSkamania67 min
Feb 6, 8:51 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia6 hr
Feb 7, 8:21 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTWalla Walla3 hr
Feb 8, 2:12 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSEWWhitman2 hr
Feb 8, 11:40 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSEWKlickitat, Skamania2 hr
Feb 17, 4:35 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTYakima2 hr
Apr 24, 7:24 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla5 hr
Apr 24, 11:20 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla6 hr
Apr 24, 4:55 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTWalla Walla5 hr
May 17, 4:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark, Skamania40 min
May 17, 4:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark, Skamania51 min
May 17, 5:01 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla44 min
May 17, 5:23 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark52 min
May 17, 5:31 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark, Cowlitz, Skamania44 min
May 18, 4:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Walla Walla48 min
Jun 27, 3:31 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSEWOkanogan3 hr
Jun 27, 3:36 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXFerry, Lincoln69 min
Jun 27, 4:36 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry, Lincoln, Stevens69 min
Jun 27, 5:29 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry, Lincoln, Stevens2 hr
Jul 3, 9:57 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXFerry, Lincoln, Stevens48 min
Jul 3, 10:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille, Stevens51 min
Jul 18, 3:17 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQRClark, Skamania58 min
Jul 29, 4:31 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEWKittitas44 min
Jul 30, 7:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXDouglas, Grant45 min
Jul 30, 7:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXFerry45 min
Jul 30, 8:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGrant, Lincoln45 min
Aug 2, 2:49 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXLincoln41 min
Aug 2, 3:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXGrant55 min
Aug 2, 3:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGrant55 min
Aug 2, 3:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXLincoln, Stevens65 min
Aug 2, 4:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille60 min
Aug 2, 4:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane51 min
Sep 3, 5:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEWKitsap49 min
Dec 31, 2:30 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens15 hr
Dec 31, 2:30 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXAsotin, Whitman15 hr
Dec 31, 2:30 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXGarfield15 hr

By product

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

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning24
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning15

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 2, 19966alerts
  2. January 15, 19964alerts
  3. May 18, 19964alerts
  4. April 24, 19963alerts
  5. June 27, 19963alerts
  6. July 31, 19963alerts
  7. December 31, 19963alerts
  8. May 17, 19962alerts
  9. July 4, 19962alerts
  10. February 6, 19961alerts
  11. February 7, 19961alerts
  12. February 8, 19961alerts

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.