Alert archive / Washington / 2008
Weather alerts in Washington, March 2008
49 weather alerts in March 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 March 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 34
- Busiest day
- March 27, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:54 AM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 15 hr | |
| Mar 1, 2:48 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Spokane, Whitman | 8 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:21 AM PST | Snow Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Mar 3, 7:59 AM PST | Snow Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 31 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:04 AM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla | 19 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:05 AM PST | Snow Advisory | PQR | 11 hr | |
| Mar 3, 3:46 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Mar 4, 2:44 AM PST | Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 12 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:25 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | SEW | 27 hr | |
| Mar 10, 3:30 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | 32 hr | |
| Mar 10, 4:01 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | PQR | 8 hr | |
| Mar 10, 9:33 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 14 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:39 PM PDT | High Surf Warning | PQR | 15 hr | |
| Mar 11, 2:52 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | PQR | 3 hr | |
| Mar 13, 3:39 AM PDT | Snow Advisory | PQR | 38 hr | |
| Mar 13, 3:00 PM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 4:27 PM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 13 hr |
| Mar 13, 5:29 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 12 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:25 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:06 AM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | OTX | Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:09 AM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Mar 21, 7:33 AM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:24 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 25 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:27 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | 39 hr | |
| Mar 22, 8:14 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | PQR | 24 hr | |
| Mar 23, 10:40 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:28 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 8 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:33 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | PQR | 38 hr | |
| Mar 26, 2:15 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 26, 8:08 PM PDT | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 8 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:45 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Spokane, Whitman | 18 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:55 AM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:55 AM PDT | Snow Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Yakima | 41 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:18 AM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Mar 27, 9:57 AM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 12 hr | |
| Mar 27, 3:37 PM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Douglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:42 PM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | SEW | 19 hr | |
| Mar 27, 4:42 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 36 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:51 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:34 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | PQR | 37 hr | |
| Mar 27, 9:34 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | PQR | 40 hr | |
| Mar 28, 3:44 AM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | OTX | Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:44 AM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 31 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:01 AM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 35 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:55 AM PDT | Heavy Snow Warning | PQR | 26 hr | |
| Mar 29, 1:49 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | PQR | 22 hr | |
| Mar 29, 2:51 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more | 43 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:20 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Mar 31, 12:10 AM PDT | Snow Advisory | SEW | 10 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Heavy Snow Warning | 6 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Snow Advisory | 23 |
| Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Warning | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| High Surf Advisory | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Spokane County12
- Walla Walla County9
- Lincoln County9
- Columbia County8
- Douglas County8
- Okanogan County8
- Pend Oreille County7
- Stevens County7
- Whitman County6
- Grant County6
- Adams County5
- Ferry County5
- Asotin County4
- Garfield County4
- Benton County2
- Franklin County2
- Klickitat County2
- San Juan County2
- Chelan County2
- Kittitas County2
- Yakima 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.