Alert archive / Washington / 2018
Weather alerts in Washington, August 2018
68 weather alerts in August 2018, 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 August 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 68
- Warnings
- 22
- Watches
- 17
- Advisories
- 26
- Busiest day
- August 7, 20188 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:31 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 1, 2:31 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Aug 1, 12:26 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 33 hr | |
| Aug 1, 8:39 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 2, 2:39 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 2, 8:39 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 3, 8:40 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Aug 4, 8:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Aug 4, 8:46 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 12 hr | |
| Aug 4, 5:04 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PQR | Skamania | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 5:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PQR | Skamania | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 8:41 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 22 hr | |
| Aug 5, 11:49 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:53 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more | 37 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:46 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 6, 1:47 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PQR | 3 days | |
| Aug 6, 1:47 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PQR | 3 days | |
| Aug 6, 2:57 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 3 days |
| Aug 7, 8:31 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Aug 7, 2:26 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more | 3 days |
| Aug 7, 2:26 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 3 days | |
| Aug 7, 2:45 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 22 hr | |
| Aug 7, 2:49 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 3 days |
| Aug 7, 2:50 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 24 hr | |
| Aug 7, 2:50 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 47 hr | |
| Aug 7, 3:28 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 8, 2:36 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 48 hr | |
| Aug 8, 12:48 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 3 days | |
| Aug 8, 2:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 32 hr | |
| Aug 9, 2:10 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 28 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:15 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 54 hr | |
| Aug 9, 3:00 PM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Aug 10, 2:31 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Aug 10, 9:03 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Aug 11, 2:41 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 3 hr | |
| Aug 11, 2:44 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Island | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 2:01 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PQR | 18 hr | |
| Aug 13, 2:45 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Aug 15, 2:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 71 hr | |
| Aug 15, 2:42 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 18 hr | |
| Aug 15, 2:59 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 18 hr | |
| Aug 16, 2:40 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 16, 8:19 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Aug 16, 8:27 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 36 hr | |
| Aug 16, 8:57 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 36 hr | |
| Aug 16, 2:52 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 13 hr | |
| Aug 19, 3:15 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 9 hr | |
| Aug 19, 12:36 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 29 hr | |
| Aug 19, 1:36 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 31 hr | |
| Aug 19, 1:37 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, San Juan and 3 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Aug 21, 2:48 PM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Aug 22, 2:58 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Aug 22, 2:58 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 62 hr | |
| Aug 22, 6:32 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 5 hr | |
| Aug 22, 11:42 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 32 hr | |
| Aug 22, 2:04 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 18 hr | |
| Aug 23, 8:33 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 11 hr | |
| Aug 24, 3:22 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Aug 25, 2:44 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Aug 25, 8:13 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 34 hr | |
| Aug 28, 2:21 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 29, 2:10 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Aug 29, 2:23 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Aug 29, 8:23 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 5 hr | |
| Aug 30, 1:39 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 55 hr | |
| Aug 30, 8:03 AM PDT | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 27 min | |
| Aug 31, 2:05 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 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 | |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 3 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 2 |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 13 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 11 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 5 |
| Special Marine Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 4 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 23 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Skamania County3
- Columbia County3
- Klickitat County3
- Walla Walla County3
- Yakima County3
- Benton County2
- Franklin County2
- Kittitas County2
- Adams County2
- Asotin County2
- Chelan County2
- Douglas County2
- Ferry County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Lincoln County2
- Okanogan County2
- Pend Oreille County2
- Spokane County2
- Stevens County2
- Whitman County2
- King County2
- Skagit County2
- Snohomish County2
- Whatcom County2
- Island County2
- Lewis County1
- Pierce County1
- Clallam County1
- Grays Harbor County1
- Jefferson County1
- San Juan 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.