Weather alerts in Washington, October 2018

54 weather alerts in October 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 October 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 54
Warnings: 9
Watches: 3
Advisories: 41
Busiest day: October 30, 20187 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
Oct 1, 2:22 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	31 hr
Oct 2, 3:00 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Oct 2, 8:53 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		5 hr
Oct 2, 8:53 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		12 hr
Oct 2, 11:17 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	10 hr
Oct 2, 11:45 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	9 hr
Oct 2, 5:32 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Douglas, Okanogan	3 hr
Oct 2, 6:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Pend Oreille	50 min
Oct 3, 8:40 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Oct 4, 2:45 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
Oct 4, 2:32 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Garfield, Grant	18 hr
Oct 4, 2:40 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		31 hr
Oct 4, 2:40 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		44 hr
Oct 5, 7:53 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		16 hr
Oct 6, 2:40 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		29 hr
Oct 8, 2:40 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
Oct 9, 8:14 AM PDT	Flash Flood Watch	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	5 hr
Oct 10, 1:32 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 3 more	19 hr
Oct 10, 1:53 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	18 hr
Oct 12, 2:29 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		40 hr
Oct 13, 2:03 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan	18 hr
Oct 13, 2:42 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
Oct 13, 3:52 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	29 hr
Oct 13, 2:50 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield	41 hr
Oct 14, 1:37 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	19 hr
Oct 14, 2:10 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PQR		19 hr
Oct 15, 2:40 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		33 hr
Oct 17, 8:09 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Oct 18, 9:14 AM PDT	Air Stagnation Advisory	OTX	Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more	5 days
Oct 18, 9:32 AM PDT	Air Stagnation Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	5 days
Oct 19, 3:26 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		7 hr
Oct 19, 8:29 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
Oct 21, 6:50 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		3 hr
Oct 21, 7:48 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	SEW		3 hr
Oct 22, 4:08 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	SEW		7 hr
Oct 22, 5:20 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		6 hr
Oct 22, 8:45 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		26 hr
Oct 23, 1:40 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	SEW		9 hr
Oct 23, 5:26 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		5 hr
Oct 24, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		66 hr
Oct 24, 8:20 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		3 days
Oct 25, 8:29 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		6 hr
Oct 25, 9:17 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
Oct 26, 2:52 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		23 hr
Oct 27, 2:12 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		41 hr
Oct 27, 9:12 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	SEW		53 hr
Oct 28, 2:19 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		46 hr
Oct 30, 2:34 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		6 hr
Oct 30, 2:34 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		29 hr
Oct 30, 2:34 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	SEW		8 hr
Oct 30, 2:34 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		14 hr
Oct 30, 3:01 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PQR		7 hr
Oct 30, 8:10 AM PDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan
Oct 30, 9:00 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		29 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	1
Flooding
Flash Flood Watch	1
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	6
Frost Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	3
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	9
Marine
Gale Warning	3
Gale Watch	2
Small Craft Advisory	17
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	3
Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.