Alert archive / Washington / 2008
Weather alerts in Washington, February 2008
51 weather alerts in February 2008, 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 February 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 51
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 29
- Busiest day
- February 6, 20089 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2:42 PM PST | Snow Advisory | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:53 PM PST | Heavy Snow Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 47 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:53 PM PST | Snow Advisory | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 2, 4:59 AM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 33 hr |
| Feb 2, 6:43 PM PST | Heavy Snow Warning | PQR | 9 hr | |
| Feb 3, 2:24 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:45 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Feb 4, 3:56 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Feb 4, 4:18 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 16 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:59 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PQR | 4 days | |
| Feb 4, 2:24 PM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 38 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:24 PM PST | Snow Advisory | OTX | Ferry, Okanogan | 27 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:24 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman | 31 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:47 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | SEW | 54 hr | |
| Feb 4, 7:59 PM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 32 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:23 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 18 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:38 AM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 24 hr | |
| Feb 5, 6:06 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 22 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:24 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | PQR | 16 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:09 PM PST | High Surf Warning | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Feb 5, 8:08 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 8 hr | |
| Feb 6, 2:54 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Feb 6, 3:41 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 34 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:14 AM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 38 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:30 AM PST | High Wind Warning | PQR | 25 hr | |
| Feb 6, 4:36 AM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:36 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman | 3 days |
| Feb 6, 2:48 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 28 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:48 PM PST | Snow Advisory | OTX | 22 hr | |
| Feb 6, 4:17 PM PST | High Wind Warning | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Feb 6, 7:08 PM PST | High Wind Warning | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla | 24 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:33 PM PST | Coastal Flood Warning | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Feb 6, 8:24 PM PST | Blizzard Warning | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Feb 6, 9:00 PM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 8 hr | |
| Feb 6, 9:35 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 3 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:51 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | SEW | 13 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:10 PM PST | Snow Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:10 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | SEW | 35 hr | |
| Feb 8, 7:03 AM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | Yakima | 5 hr |
| Feb 8, 3:52 PM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 12 hr | |
| Feb 8, 7:11 PM PST | Snow Advisory | PDT | 13 hr | |
| Feb 9, 3:58 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 8 hr | |
| Feb 9, 12:25 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Feb 10, 2:19 AM PST | Snow Advisory | SEW | 13 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:44 AM PST | Snow Advisory | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Feb 19, 10:42 AM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more | 8 days |
| Feb 21, 9:05 AM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | PDT | Yakima | 6 days |
| Feb 26, 3:49 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | Lincoln, Spokane | 6 hr |
| Feb 29, 3:43 AM PST | Snow Advisory | SEW | 36 hr | |
| Feb 29, 4:51 AM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 9 hr | |
| Feb 29, 2:00 PM PST | Heavy Snow Warning | PQR | 13 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Heavy Snow Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 7 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 6 |
| Snow Advisory | 13 |
| Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 3 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Air Stagnation Advisory | 2 |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 1 |
| High Surf Warning | 1 |
| High Surf Advisory | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County9
- Walla Walla County9
- Lincoln County8
- Spokane County8
- Okanogan County6
- Pend Oreille County5
- Stevens County5
- Douglas County4
- Yakima County4
- Whitman County4
- Adams County3
- Grant County3
- Benton County3
- Franklin County3
- Klickitat County3
- Ferry County3
- Asotin County3
- Garfield County3
- Chelan County2
- Kittitas County2
- San Juan County2
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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.