Weather alerts in Washington, May 2008

45 weather alerts in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 45
Warnings: 21
Watches: 13
Advisories: 11
Busiest day: May 18, 20087 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
May 6, 2:57 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	31 hr
May 9, 8:20 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Benton, Chelan, Clallam, Columbia, Cowlitz and 27 more	40 min
May 15, 12:57 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	4 days
May 15, 12:57 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	6 days
May 15, 1:34 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	23 hr
May 15, 1:34 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Yakima	70 hr
May 15, 1:34 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	70 hr
May 15, 1:45 PM PDT	Flood Watch	OTX	Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more	31 hr
May 16, 8:48 AM PDT	Heat Advisory	PQR		11 hr
May 16, 11:56 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Chelan	5 days
May 16, 12:09 PM PDT	Flood Watch	SEW	King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish	57 hr
May 16, 12:42 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Asotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	4 days
May 16, 7:48 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Chelan	69 hr
May 16, 7:48 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Okanogan	18 hr
May 16, 7:48 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Chelan	40 hr
May 16, 8:00 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Asotin, Chelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Stevens	6 days
May 16, 8:00 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Asotin, Chelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Stevens	7 days
May 17, 1:21 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	69 hr
May 17, 6:34 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis, Pierce	37 hr
May 18, 1:51 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	13 hr
May 18, 10:43 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	49 hr
May 18, 10:43 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	48 hr
May 18, 10:43 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Chelan	44 hr
May 18, 11:27 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Spokane	50 hr
May 18, 1:17 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Ferry	47 hr
May 19, 4:30 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Asotin	32 hr
May 19, 10:00 AM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	5 days
May 19, 5:39 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Spokane	17 days
May 20, 12:00 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	9 hr
May 21, 3:30 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	19 hr
May 21, 1:01 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Ferry	7 hr
May 21, 5:00 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	29 hr
May 24, 7:29 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Skamania	38 min
May 24, 8:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Clark, Skamania	39 min
May 24, 8:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Clark	21 min
May 24, 9:12 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Clark	4 hr
May 25, 10:41 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Pend Oreille	33 hr
May 27, 10:12 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Yakima	23 hr
May 27, 2:34 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Pend Oreille	24 hr
May 27, 2:34 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Pend Oreille	19 days
May 28, 4:27 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Garfield, Whitman	14 days
May 28, 6:17 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Spokane	79 min
May 29, 2:19 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Ferry	86 min
May 29, 5:36 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	5 hr
May 31, 4:15 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	3 hr

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	3
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Warning	2
River Flood Warning	15
Flood Watch	2
River Flood Watch	10
Areal Flood Advisory	8
Heat
Heat Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	2

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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.