Weather alerts in Washington, May 2009

62 weather alerts in May 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 62
Warnings: 19
Watches: 7
Advisories: 34
Busiest day: May 19, 200910 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 1, 4:30 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		36 hr
May 2, 3:54 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Clark	36 min
May 2, 4:31 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Clark, Skamania	29 min
May 2, 5:19 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		3 hr
May 2, 5:19 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		9 hr
May 2, 8:43 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		4 days
May 3, 2:42 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		14 hr
May 3, 9:36 AM PDT	High Wind Watch	PQR		18 hr
May 3, 3:10 PM PDT	High Wind Watch	SEW		24 hr
May 3, 4:50 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		16 hr
May 3, 4:50 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		46 hr
May 4, 3:59 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	PQR		16 hr
May 4, 4:35 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	30 hr
May 5, 5:27 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SEW	Kitsap, Mason, Pierce	3 hr
May 5, 7:54 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		16 hr
May 5, 8:16 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
May 6, 2:36 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		44 hr
May 6, 9:42 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane	3 hr
May 10, 3:00 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		8 hr
May 11, 2:57 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		45 hr
May 11, 1:43 PM PDT	Freeze Watch	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more	25 hr
May 11, 2:29 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		10 hr
May 11, 11:03 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		57 min
May 12, 3:46 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	16 hr
May 12, 8:12 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		7 hr
May 12, 3:02 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Douglas, Okanogan	16 hr
May 12, 5:46 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		3 hr
May 13, 2:56 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		35 hr
May 13, 2:08 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	29 hr
May 13, 5:45 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		6 hr
May 13, 8:14 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Kittitas	36 hr
May 13, 9:23 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		9 hr
May 13, 9:30 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX		8 hr
May 13, 10:15 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT		8 hr
May 14, 6:49 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 hr
May 17, 2:47 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		42 hr
May 18, 10:39 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Yakima	23 hr
May 18, 2:25 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	29 hr
May 18, 5:33 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia	35 min
May 18, 6:04 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Asotin, Garfield	41 min
May 18, 6:07 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin	83 min
May 18, 8:41 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		30 hr
May 18, 8:53 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Asotin, Garfield, Whitman	37 min
May 18, 9:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Whitman	34 min
May 19, 3:10 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		23 hr
May 19, 3:10 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		12 hr
May 19, 5:30 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	23 hr
May 19, 4:03 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Kittitas	7 days
May 20, 2:38 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 days
May 20, 2:45 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	17 hr
May 21, 8:50 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		17 hr
May 22, 4:49 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		10 hr
May 24, 2:49 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		32 hr
May 26, 2:49 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		29 hr
May 26, 4:21 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Kittitas	7 days
May 27, 6:51 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 hr
May 28, 8:57 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		19 hr
May 29, 3:24 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Klickitat, Yakima	66 min
May 29, 4:18 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		11 hr
May 29, 4:18 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		11 hr
May 29, 8:33 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	5 days
May 30, 4:30 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Chelan	39 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	6
Mesoscale Discussion	2
Flooding
River Flood Warning	2
River Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	4
Marine
Gale Warning	8
Gale Watch	2
Small Craft Advisory	16
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	1
Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	1
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	3

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.