Weather alerts in Washington, May 2012

50 weather alerts in May 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 50
Warnings: 8
Watches: 5
Advisories: 37
Busiest day: May 9, 20126 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, 2:35 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
May 1, 8:05 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		7 hr
May 1, 2:37 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
May 3, 2:25 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX		12 hr
May 3, 2:46 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
May 3, 3:08 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		18 hr
May 4, 8:59 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		23 hr
May 5, 4:37 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 hr
May 7, 2:44 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
May 7, 2:36 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
May 7, 2:36 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		60 hr
May 7, 2:36 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		60 hr
May 8, 2:47 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		13 hr
May 9, 3:22 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		29 hr
May 9, 3:22 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 9, 4:18 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	16 hr
May 9, 12:27 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	19 hr
May 9, 1:02 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR		19 hr
May 9, 2:59 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	SEW		17 hr
May 10, 2:56 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
May 10, 2:22 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	17 hr
May 10, 6:03 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant	14 hr
May 12, 5:25 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
May 13, 8:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
May 14, 8:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		20 hr
May 15, 9:06 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		66 hr
May 15, 10:10 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Chelan	24 hr
May 15, 10:10 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Okanogan	25 hr
May 15, 4:33 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		10 hr
May 16, 9:03 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
May 16, 9:54 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Okanogan	68 hr
May 16, 9:02 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		48 hr
May 20, 2:20 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		43 hr
May 20, 9:08 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
May 21, 2:53 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		15 hr
May 22, 2:39 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		36 hr
May 22, 6:46 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		2 hr
May 22, 2:46 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		32 hr
May 24, 1:07 PM PDT	High Wind Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	31 hr
May 24, 1:07 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	26 hr
May 24, 2:32 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		12 hr
May 25, 2:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		18 hr
May 25, 6:18 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		102 min
May 26, 2:30 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
May 26, 2:22 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		12 hr
May 26, 7:32 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Clark	112 min
May 27, 8:16 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		7 hr
May 27, 2:50 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		36 hr
May 30, 2:33 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	SEW		12 hr
May 31, 2:52 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		39 hr

By product

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

Product	Alerts
Flooding
River Flood Warning	1
River Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	2
Cold
Freeze Warning	3
Frost Advisory	2
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
Wind Advisory	2
Marine
Gale Warning	3
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	24
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	3
Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	1
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	2

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.