Alert archive / Washington / 1997
Weather alerts in Washington, May 1997
20 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 31, 199719 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:50 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille, Stevens | 16 hr |
| May 31, 9:48 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Benton, Klickitat | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:00 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 11:13 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Grant | 62 min |
| May 31, 11:31 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Adams | 29 min |
| May 31, 11:54 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 51 min |
| May 31, 11:58 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Adams | 62 min |
| May 31, 12:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Lincoln | 61 min |
| May 31, 12:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 50 min |
| May 31, 12:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Garfield, Whitman | 60 min |
| May 31, 12:45 PM PDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Lincoln and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 1:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Spokane | 60 min |
| May 31, 1:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 60 min |
| May 31, 1:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Stevens | 57 min |
| May 31, 1:39 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Asotin, Whitman | 66 min |
| May 31, 1:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Asotin, Whitman | 66 min |
| May 31, 1:53 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille | 67 min |
| May 31, 1:53 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille | 67 min |
| May 31, 2:25 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Columbia | 110 min |
| May 31, 3:08 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille | 52 min |
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 | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.