Alert archive / Washington

Weather alerts in Washington, 1997

81 weather alerts in 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
81
Warnings
77
Watches
4
Advisories
0
Busiest month
January20 alerts
Busiest day
May 31, 199719 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 1, 4:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens12 hr
Jan 1, 4:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry12 hr
Jan 1, 4:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXWhitman12 hr
Jan 1, 4:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXAsotin, Garfield12 hr
Jan 1, 4:56 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry12 hr
Jan 1, 4:56 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens12 hr
Jan 1, 4:56 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningOTXAsotin, Garfield, Whitman12 hr
Jan 1, 5:40 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTYakima9 hr
Jan 1, 5:55 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia6 hr
Jan 1, 7:07 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTBenton, Walla Walla7 hr
Jan 1, 11:02 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTKlickitat6 hr
Jan 1, 11:45 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla5 hr
Jan 1, 5:00 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTKlickitat12 hr
Jan 2, 5:00 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTKlickitat5 hr
Jan 30, 9:35 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia8 hr
Jan 30, 9:35 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTWalla Walla8 hr
Jan 31, 9:34 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla4 hr
Jan 31, 10:35 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla6 hr
Jan 31, 2:27 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTWalla Walla12 hr
Jan 31, 3:50 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia4 hr
Jan 31, 8:00 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia7 hr
Apr 23, 3:50 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTBenton115 min
May 30, 12:50 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXPend Oreille, Stevens16 hr
May 31, 9:48 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Klickitat57 min
May 31, 10:00 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas and 10 more6 hr
May 31, 11:13 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGrant62 min
May 31, 11:31 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXAdams29 min
May 31, 11:54 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla51 min
May 31, 11:58 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXAdams62 min
May 31, 12:14 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXLincoln61 min
May 31, 12:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla50 min
May 31, 12:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGarfield, Whitman60 min
May 31, 12:45 PM PDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Lincoln and 3 more6 hr
May 31, 1:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane60 min
May 31, 1:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla60 min
May 31, 1:33 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXStevens57 min
May 31, 1:39 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXAsotin, Whitman66 min
May 31, 1:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXAsotin, Whitman66 min
May 31, 1:53 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXPend Oreille67 min
May 31, 1:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille67 min
May 31, 2:25 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia110 min
May 31, 3:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille52 min
May 31, 5:20 PM PDTTornado WarningPQRClark40 min
May 31, 5:54 PM PDTTornado WarningPQRClark36 min
May 31, 6:22 PM PDTTornado WarningSEWSnohomish28 min
Jun 17, 4:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille56 min
Jun 17, 6:57 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXStevens48 min
Jun 17, 7:34 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille41 min
Jun 21, 12:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXChelan50 min
Jul 5, 4:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin and 8 more7 hr
Jul 5, 6:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXFerry55 min
Jul 5, 7:29 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXStevens61 min
Jul 21, 2:07 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla68 min
Jul 21, 3:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXWhitman49 min
Jul 21, 3:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXWhitman64 min
Jul 21, 3:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin and 8 more6 hr
Jul 21, 3:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane51 min
Jul 21, 4:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia64 min
Jul 21, 4:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXFerry45 min
Jul 21, 4:56 PM PDTTornado WarningOTXStevens49 min
Jul 21, 5:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille58 min
Jul 21, 7:37 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane53 min
Jul 30, 6:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWalla Walla55 min
Jul 30, 6:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla51 min
Jul 30, 6:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla47 min
Jul 30, 7:22 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTKlickitat68 min
Jul 30, 8:55 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Walla Walla2 hr
Jul 30, 9:38 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTColumbia, Franklin, Walla Walla82 min
Jul 30, 9:38 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia, Franklin, Walla Walla82 min
Jul 31, 6:07 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXAsotin, Whitman68 min
Aug 5, 6:55 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXFerry2 hr
Aug 6, 7:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXChelan60 min
Aug 24, 6:30 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWalla Walla60 min
Aug 24, 8:35 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXAsotin55 min
Aug 26, 3:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXOkanogan40 min
Aug 26, 4:19 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas26 min
Aug 26, 4:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima65 min
Aug 26, 4:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXOkanogan40 min
Aug 26, 5:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXOkanogan40 min
Sep 1, 6:00 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEWPierce, Thurston60 min
Sep 10, 5:18 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima42 min

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 Warning44
Tornado Warning4
Severe Thunderstorm Watch3
Tornado Watch1
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning29

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. May 31, 199719alerts
  2. January 1, 199712alerts
  3. July 21, 19978alerts
  4. July 31, 19977alerts
  5. January 31, 19976alerts
  6. August 26, 19974alerts
  7. June 1, 19973alerts
  8. January 2, 19972alerts
  9. June 18, 19972alerts
  10. July 6, 19972alerts
  11. July 22, 19972alerts
  12. August 24, 19972alerts

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.