Alert archive / Washington / 2016
Weather alerts in Washington, April 2016
66 weather alerts in April 2016, 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 April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 44
- Busiest day
- April 23, 20166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Apr 1, 9:14 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Apr 2, 2:58 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Apr 3, 2:54 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Apr 3, 2:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 48 hr | |
| Apr 3, 8:52 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 30 hr | |
| Apr 3, 2:59 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:07 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 33 hr | |
| Apr 4, 3:21 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:23 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 9 hr | |
| Apr 6, 2:23 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Apr 7, 2:44 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Apr 7, 11:43 AM PDT | River Flood Warning | PDT | Yakima | 3 days |
| Apr 7, 2:38 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 35 hr | |
| Apr 7, 2:38 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 36 hr | |
| Apr 9, 8:56 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Apr 9, 11:30 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 3 hr | |
| Apr 9, 2:29 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Apr 10, 2:31 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Apr 11, 8:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Apr 11, 7:10 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 31 hr | |
| Apr 12, 2:30 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | SEW | 3 days | |
| Apr 12, 2:40 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Apr 12, 7:15 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 2 hr | |
| Apr 13, 2:28 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Apr 13, 8:57 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Apr 13, 9:57 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Apr 13, 10:17 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Ferry, Okanogan | 18 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:02 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:02 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 33 hr | |
| Apr 14, 9:37 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Okanogan | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:30 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Apr 17, 2:06 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Apr 19, 8:46 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Apr 19, 12:06 PM PDT | River Flood Watch | OTX | Okanogan | 3 days |
| Apr 19, 8:54 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 30 hr | |
| Apr 20, 2:12 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Apr 20, 6:15 AM PDT | River Flood Advisory | PDT | Yakima | 34 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:21 PM PDT | River Flood Watch | OTX | Ferry | 5 days |
| Apr 20, 3:21 PM PDT | River Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan | 4 days |
| Apr 20, 5:58 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PQR | Skamania | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 8:07 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Lewis | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 2:35 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 2 hr | |
| Apr 21, 9:00 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Apr 21, 4:07 PM PDT | River Flood Warning | OTX | Chelan | 64 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PQR | Cowlitz, Wahkiakum | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 3:17 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Apr 22, 12:49 PM PDT | River Flood Warning | OTX | Okanogan | 6 days |
| Apr 22, 2:30 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 30 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:42 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Pend Oreille | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 8:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Pend Oreille | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 2:55 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 72 hr | |
| Apr 23, 4:57 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Apr 23, 4:57 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Apr 23, 2:41 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Apr 24, 3:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | SEW | 43 hr | |
| Apr 24, 3:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Apr 24, 2:27 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 33 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Apr 25, 10:00 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Apr 27, 2:59 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Apr 28, 2:50 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 38 hr | |
| Apr 29, 3:00 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 47 hr | |
| Apr 29, 1:40 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:45 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Apr 30, 2:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 12 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 | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 3 |
| River Flood Watch | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| River Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 7 |
| Gale Watch | 4 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 27 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 5 |
| 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.
- Yakima County6
- Okanogan County5
- Kittitas County4
- Chelan County3
- Klickitat County2
- Ferry County2
- Pend Oreille County2
- Benton County1
- Columbia County1
- Franklin County1
- Walla Walla County1
- Adams County1
- Asotin County1
- Douglas County1
- Garfield County1
- Grant County1
- Lincoln County1
- Spokane County1
- Whitman County1
- Skamania County1
- Lewis County1
- Cowlitz County1
- Wahkiakum 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.