Weather alerts in Washington, 1998

59 weather alerts in 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 59
Warnings: 56
Watches: 3
Advisories: 0
Busiest month: July33 alerts
Busiest day: July 11, 199816 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 3:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Walla Walla	48 min
Apr 10, 3:32 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Adams, Grant	48 min
Apr 10, 4:09 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia	61 min
Apr 23, 11:30 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Douglas, Franklin and 6 more	6 hr
Apr 23, 12:41 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan	49 min
Apr 23, 1:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Walla Walla	65 min
Apr 23, 1:44 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Ferry	66 min
Apr 23, 2:17 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Franklin	63 min
Apr 23, 2:33 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	62 min
Apr 23, 2:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Stevens	33 min
Apr 23, 2:55 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Adams	50 min
Apr 23, 4:10 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Okanogan	50 min
May 12, 4:56 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Yakima	64 min
May 12, 6:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	65 min
May 12, 7:09 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Kittitas	61 min
May 12, 7:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Yakima	60 min
May 25, 5:41 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Clark	59 min
Jun 5, 2:12 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Klickitat, Yakima	63 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Klickitat	49 min
Jun 7, 4:57 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PQR	Skamania	73 min
Jun 7, 5:26 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SEW	Snohomish	64 min
Jun 7, 6:14 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PQR	Skamania	51 min
Jun 11, 9:08 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Whitman	47 min
Jun 21, 4:43 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Chelan	62 min
Jun 30, 6:19 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Klickitat, Yakima	46 min
Jul 3, 3:17 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	OTX	Lincoln	33 min
Jul 3, 3:24 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	2 hr
Jul 3, 3:36 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	OTX	Lincoln	34 min
Jul 3, 4:13 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Douglas, Grant	47 min
Jul 3, 4:48 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Douglas, Grant	2 hr
Jul 3, 5:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Stevens	50 min
Jul 3, 5:18 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Douglas, Okanogan	47 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Douglas, Okanogan	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:15 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 10 more	6 hr
Jul 10, 7:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Asotin	62 min
Jul 10, 7:37 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Benton	48 min
Jul 10, 7:41 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Grant	64 min
Jul 10, 7:56 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Adams	64 min
Jul 10, 8:12 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Benton, Franklin	63 min
Jul 10, 8:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Lincoln	65 min
Jul 10, 8:47 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Grant	48 min
Jul 10, 9:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield and 7 more	6 hr
Jul 10, 9:11 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	OTX	Adams	64 min
Jul 10, 9:19 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan	61 min
Jul 10, 9:33 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Lincoln, Spokane	62 min
Jul 10, 10:32 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Lincoln, Spokane, Stevens	63 min
Jul 10, 11:12 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	OTX	Spokane	48 min
Jul 10, 11:33 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane	67 min
Jul 11, 12:00 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane	60 min
Jul 29, 4:22 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Lincoln, Spokane, Whitman	118 min
Jul 29, 4:51 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Spokane	29 min
Jul 29, 5:40 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	60 min
Jul 29, 6:38 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	87 min
Jul 29, 6:44 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 30, 1:20 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille	50 min
Jul 30, 2:19 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille	96 min
Jul 30, 9:44 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Klickitat	2 hr
Jul 31, 6:43 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Stevens	92 min
Oct 3, 5:01 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	PQR	Clark	59 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	38
Tornado Warning	6
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	3
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	12

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.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1997 1999

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.