Weather alerts in Washington, October 2008

65 weather alerts in October 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 October 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 65
Warnings: 12
Watches: 6
Advisories: 47
Busiest day: October 6, 20088 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
Oct 1, 2:35 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
Oct 1, 3:02 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		31 hr
Oct 2, 9:00 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		6 hr
Oct 2, 9:00 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		3 days
Oct 2, 11:43 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		3 hr
Oct 2, 3:00 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		54 hr
Oct 3, 2:46 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		48 hr
Oct 3, 9:15 PM PDT	High Surf Advisory	SEW		30 hr
Oct 4, 2:00 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	7 hr
Oct 5, 2:32 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
Oct 5, 9:02 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		6 hr
Oct 5, 9:02 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		36 hr
Oct 6, 2:50 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
Oct 6, 3:38 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	SEW		11 hr
Oct 6, 2:27 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	19 hr
Oct 6, 2:27 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		23 hr
Oct 6, 2:32 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	29 hr
Oct 6, 2:34 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more	30 hr
Oct 6, 8:30 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		42 hr
Oct 7, 2:38 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Oct 7, 2:40 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Yakima	30 hr
Oct 7, 9:03 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		117 min
Oct 7, 9:03 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		117 min
Oct 7, 9:03 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		24 hr
Oct 7, 11:13 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		9 hr
Oct 8, 8:52 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
Oct 9, 2:53 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	17 hr
Oct 9, 7:30 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant	61 hr
Oct 9, 8:53 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		18 hr
Oct 10, 2:58 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		12 hr
Oct 10, 4:36 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	29 hr
Oct 10, 8:51 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR		24 hr
Oct 10, 12:15 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		9 hr
Oct 10, 3:00 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	SEW	San Juan	18 hr
Oct 11, 9:02 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR		22 hr
Oct 11, 2:17 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	19 hr
Oct 12, 1:31 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		43 hr
Oct 13, 2:47 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		41 hr
Oct 14, 1:43 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		7 hr
Oct 15, 9:06 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		66 hr
Oct 16, 10:30 PM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		11 hr
Oct 17, 8:53 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
Oct 18, 2:58 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		24 hr
Oct 19, 2:48 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		32 hr
Oct 20, 2:47 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		48 hr
Oct 20, 4:19 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		22 hr
Oct 20, 2:33 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		8 hr
Oct 22, 3:02 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		8 hr
Oct 22, 11:29 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		3 hr
Oct 23, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		24 hr
Oct 23, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Oct 23, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		6 hr
Oct 23, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		24 hr
Oct 24, 3:06 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		42 hr
Oct 24, 3:06 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		45 hr
Oct 25, 3:19 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		47 hr
Oct 26, 1:50 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		13 hr
Oct 26, 1:50 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		16 hr
Oct 29, 8:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		6 hr
Oct 30, 2:04 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		19 hr
Oct 30, 2:04 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 days
Oct 30, 8:50 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		5 hr
Oct 31, 2:06 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		13 hr
Oct 31, 2:06 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		5 days
Oct 31, 3:16 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		37 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Winter
Winter Storm Watch	1
Winter Weather Advisory	2
Cold
Freeze Warning	5
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	4
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	1
Coast and beach
High Surf Advisory	1
Marine
Gale Warning	7
Gale Watch	5
Small Craft Advisory	16
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	7
Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	9
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	4

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