Alert archive / Washington / 2012
Weather alerts in Washington, September 2012
52 weather alerts in September 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 September 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 52
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 28
- Busiest day
- September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 2 hr | |
| Sep 1, 2:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Sep 1, 2:05 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 19 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Sep 3, 2:47 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 2 hr | |
| Sep 3, 2:47 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 68 hr | |
| Sep 7, 8:53 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Sep 7, 1:35 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Cowlitz | 23 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:29 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 39 hr | |
| Sep 8, 8:55 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Sep 8, 12:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Cowlitz | 58 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:27 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 58 hr | |
| Sep 8, 7:04 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Sep 8, 7:04 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Sep 8, 7:55 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 50 hr | |
| Sep 9, 9:04 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Sep 9, 12:13 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 33 hr |
| Sep 9, 4:29 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Sep 10, 11:23 AM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:53 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PQR | 48 hr | |
| Sep 10, 3:00 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more | 42 hr |
| Sep 10, 3:09 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Sep 11, 2:56 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Sep 11, 8:50 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 48 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:55 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | 62 hr | |
| Sep 11, 3:44 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:53 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Sep 12, 3:29 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 7 more | 38 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:02 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 5 hr | |
| Sep 14, 2:23 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Sep 15, 2:40 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Sep 15, 6:43 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 13 hr | |
| Sep 15, 9:37 AM PDT | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more | 5 days |
| Sep 17, 8:52 AM PDT | Air Stagnation Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 3 days |
| Sep 17, 9:37 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 4 hr | |
| Sep 20, 2:39 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 28 hr | |
| Sep 20, 2:33 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PQR | 24 hr | |
| Sep 20, 2:52 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 24 hr | |
| Sep 20, 3:21 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:24 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Cowlitz | 22 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:45 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Sep 21, 1:40 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania | 42 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:07 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | 19 hr | |
| Sep 21, 2:18 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 30 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:33 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 27 hr | |
| Sep 23, 2:37 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | SEW | 48 hr | |
| Sep 23, 2:37 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Sep 24, 9:21 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Sep 28, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | SEW | 40 hr | |
| Sep 28, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 30 hr | |
| Sep 28, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 40 hr | |
| Sep 30, 3:24 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 10 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 9 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Air Stagnation Advisory | 2 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 20 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Okanogan County5
- Spokane County5
- Skamania County5
- Cowlitz County4
- Grays Harbor County4
- King County4
- Lewis County4
- Mason County4
- Pierce County4
- Skagit County4
- Snohomish County4
- Thurston County4
- Whatcom County4
- Ferry County3
- Pend Oreille County3
- Stevens County3
- Lincoln County3
- Whitman County3
- Kittitas County2
- Yakima County2
- Adams County2
- Asotin County2
- Douglas County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Clallam County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kitsap County2
- Chelan County1
- Clark County1
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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.