Alert archive / Washington

Weather alerts in Washington, 2003

28 weather alerts in 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
28
Warnings
16
Watches
2
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June8 alerts
Busiest day
April 30, 20035 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 22, 5:04 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChelan, Kittitas6 hr
Apr 16, 8:21 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWalla Walla39 min
Apr 29, 6:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTKlickitat35 min
Apr 29, 6:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTKlickitat34 min
Apr 29, 9:06 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGrant39 min
Apr 29, 9:10 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGrant50 min
Apr 29, 9:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Franklin18 min
May 12, 6:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXLincoln31 min
May 24, 12:20 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKlickitat115 min
May 24, 1:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Klickitat, Walla Walla5 hr
May 24, 4:40 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Walla Walla95 min
May 24, 7:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXStevens40 min
May 24, 7:19 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane26 min
May 24, 7:36 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXStevens39 min
Jun 10, 2:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane34 min
Jun 10, 2:37 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille53 min
Jun 10, 4:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane32 min
Jun 10, 5:00 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPend Oreille2 hr
Jun 18, 12:18 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 9 more57 min
Jun 18, 12:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield and 6 more7 hr
Jun 18, 3:10 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield and 6 more110 min
Jun 18, 6:17 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Pend Oreille and 4 more88 min
Aug 5, 4:20 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Klickitat, Yakima85 min
Aug 7, 2:01 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton59 min
Aug 7, 2:07 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton53 min
Aug 7, 2:16 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Franklin59 min
Nov 7, 7:56 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSkamania3 hr
Dec 20, 12:14 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more6 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 Warning16
Severe Thunderstorm Watch2
Mesoscale Discussion10

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. April 30, 20035alerts
  2. May 24, 20033alerts
  3. May 25, 20033alerts
  4. June 10, 20033alerts
  5. June 18, 20033alerts
  6. August 7, 20033alerts
  7. January 22, 20031alerts
  8. April 17, 20031alerts
  9. May 13, 20031alerts
  10. June 11, 20031alerts
  11. June 19, 20031alerts
  12. August 5, 20031alerts

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.