Weather alerts in Washington, May 2006

25 weather alerts in May 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 25
Warnings: 10
Watches: 2
Advisories: 6
Busiest day: May 19, 20067 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
Apr 30, 9:17 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 2 more	23 hr
May 1, 3:31 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	16 hr
May 1, 3:31 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	17 hr
May 1, 10:35 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	9 hr
May 2, 3:00 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	17 hr
May 6, 10:37 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	9 hr
May 18, 12:24 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin	2 hr
May 19, 12:56 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield and 3 more	2 hr
May 19, 1:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield and 6 more	8 hr
May 19, 2:36 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Asotin, Garfield, Whitman	39 min
May 19, 4:03 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield and 3 more	117 min
May 19, 4:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Benton	64 min
May 19, 4:47 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Walla Walla	58 min
May 19, 4:52 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Franklin	53 min
May 19, 5:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Franklin, Walla Walla	67 min
May 19, 5:47 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Walla Walla, Whitman	88 min
May 19, 5:57 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia	63 min
May 19, 6:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Adams, Garfield, Whitman	40 min
May 21, 5:50 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Asotin	25 min
May 22, 2:14 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield and 7 more	2 hr
May 22, 2:49 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin and 8 more	6 hr
May 22, 5:27 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Lincoln and 5 more	2 hr
May 23, 1:04 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin, Ferry, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more	116 min
May 27, 3:17 AM PDT	Snow Advisory	PQR		26 hr
May 29, 10:03 AM PDT	Ashfall Advisory	PQR		117 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	8
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	2
Mesoscale Discussion	7
Winter
Snow Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	3
Fog and smoke
Ashfall Advisory	1

By county

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

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.