Alert archive / Washington / 2020
Weather alerts in Washington, August 2020
68 weather alerts in August 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 68
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 31
- Busiest day
- August 13, 20209 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, 2:41 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 2, 2:35 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Aug 3, 2:44 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 4, 2:26 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 3 days | |
| Aug 4, 2:53 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 49 hr | |
| Aug 5, 10:28 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 16 hr | |
| Aug 5, 1:24 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 33 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:40 PM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 5, 8:30 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 27 hr | |
| Aug 6, 2:24 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 20 hr | |
| Aug 8, 2:40 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 4 days | |
| Aug 9, 2:01 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 43 hr | |
| Aug 9, 1:48 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 24 hr | |
| Aug 9, 2:09 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 24 hr | |
| Aug 10, 2:06 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 31 hr | |
| Aug 10, 2:20 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 31 hr | |
| Aug 11, 5:48 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 3 hr | |
| Aug 11, 8:35 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Aug 12, 1:51 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 3 hr | |
| Aug 12, 8:38 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 21 hr | |
| Aug 13, 2:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 13, 4:37 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Aug 13, 2:13 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:14 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:26 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PQR | 3 days | |
| Aug 13, 2:26 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | 3 days | |
| Aug 13, 2:26 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PQR | 3 days | |
| Aug 13, 2:51 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | SEW | 36 hr | |
| Aug 13, 2:56 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 38 hr | |
| Aug 14, 3:13 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:19 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 4 days |
| Aug 14, 2:19 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 4 days |
| Aug 14, 2:37 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more | 4 days |
| Aug 14, 2:37 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Ferry, Garfield, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more | 4 days |
| Aug 14, 2:50 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 32 hr | |
| Aug 14, 3:02 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 56 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:57 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | SEW | 47 hr | |
| Aug 15, 2:57 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | SEW | 47 hr | |
| Aug 15, 2:55 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 38 hr | |
| Aug 17, 3:12 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 16 hr | |
| Aug 17, 6:16 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 5 hr | |
| Aug 17, 8:42 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Aug 17, 3:19 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:27 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Asotin, Columbia | 93 min |
| Aug 17, 8:00 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Walla Walla | 90 min |
| Aug 17, 8:29 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | Franklin | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 9:24 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Adams | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 2:36 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Aug 18, 5:20 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 15 hr | |
| Aug 19, 1:06 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Spokane | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 3:27 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 71 hr | |
| Aug 21, 11:24 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 6 hr | |
| Aug 22, 2:52 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Aug 23, 2:38 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 36 hr | |
| Aug 23, 5:48 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 9 hr | |
| Aug 24, 3:06 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 41 hr | |
| Aug 24, 2:38 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 60 hr | |
| Aug 26, 2:47 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Aug 27, 1:49 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 36 hr | |
| Aug 27, 2:50 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 29 hr | |
| Aug 27, 3:28 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | 23 hr | |
| Aug 27, 2:40 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 69 hr | |
| Aug 28, 1:41 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 43 hr | |
| Aug 28, 7:05 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 39 hr | |
| Aug 28, 8:09 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Aug 29, 8:35 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 12 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:34 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 9 hr | |
| Aug 30, 2:36 PM 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 Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 4 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 4 |
| Heat Advisory | 4 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 10 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 8 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 4 |
| Gale Watch | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 25 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Asotin County5
- Columbia County5
- Walla Walla County5
- Kittitas County4
- Yakima County4
- Garfield County4
- Spokane County4
- Klickitat County3
- Adams County3
- Okanogan County3
- Franklin County3
- Chelan County2
- Douglas County2
- Ferry County2
- Grant County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pend Oreille County2
- Stevens County2
- Whitman County2
- Benton County2
- Grays Harbor County2
- King County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Pierce County2
- Skagit County2
- Skamania County2
- Snohomish County2
- Thurston County2
- Whatcom County2
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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.