Weather alerts in Washington, March 2020

64 weather alerts in March 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 64
Warnings: 8
Watches: 8
Advisories: 41
Busiest day: March 29, 202011 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
Mar 1, 2:39 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		5 days
Mar 2, 3:08 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		5 days
Mar 2, 2:52 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 days
Mar 3, 2:57 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		16 hr
Mar 3, 2:23 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		20 hr
Mar 3, 7:25 PM PST	Gale Warning	SEW		9 hr
Mar 4, 1:37 AM PST	Gale Watch	SEW		18 hr
Mar 4, 7:52 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		23 hr
Mar 5, 3:47 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		25 hr
Mar 5, 2:35 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		31 hr
Mar 9, 2:39 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		61 hr
Mar 10, 3:05 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
Mar 11, 3:17 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		6 hr
Mar 11, 3:17 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		23 hr
Mar 11, 12:13 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	6 hr
Mar 11, 2:55 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		12 hr
Mar 11, 3:16 PM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	OTX	Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more	24 hr
Mar 12, 8:59 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	5 hr
Mar 12, 2:04 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	3 days
Mar 12, 2:59 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
Mar 12, 2:59 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		3 days
Mar 12, 3:01 PM PDT	High Wind Watch	SEW	San Juan	13 hr
Mar 12, 3:08 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		36 hr
Mar 12, 3:29 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 2 more	44 hr
Mar 12, 3:50 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more	43 hr
Mar 13, 2:43 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		56 hr
Mar 13, 3:02 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PQR		40 hr
Mar 13, 3:43 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	34 hr
Mar 13, 4:10 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	SEW		34 hr
Mar 13, 4:10 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	48 hr
Mar 14, 11:16 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	3 hr
Mar 14, 8:32 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
Mar 15, 8:47 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 hr
Mar 16, 11:49 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		14 hr
Mar 17, 2:45 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		15 hr
Mar 18, 8:27 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		9 hr
Mar 20, 2:43 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
Mar 22, 2:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
Mar 22, 8:42 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		38 hr
Mar 23, 9:29 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		5 hr
Mar 24, 3:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	21 min
Mar 24, 3:37 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Cowlitz	23 min
Mar 24, 4:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	20 min
Mar 24, 4:45 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	15 min
Mar 24, 5:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	13 min
Mar 24, 5:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	25 min
Mar 25, 8:40 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		10 hr
Mar 27, 2:55 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		47 hr
Mar 28, 2:52 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		25 hr
Mar 28, 2:52 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		16 hr
Mar 29, 3:07 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	OTX		12 hr
Mar 29, 3:12 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	35 hr
Mar 29, 3:17 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	SEW		12 hr
Mar 29, 10:19 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PQR		56 hr
Mar 29, 2:29 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 5 more	28 hr
Mar 29, 2:35 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	53 hr
Mar 29, 2:39 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX		44 hr
Mar 29, 3:29 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	SEW		44 hr
Mar 29, 3:29 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		62 hr
Mar 29, 3:35 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		16 hr
Mar 29, 3:35 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		69 hr
Mar 30, 11:54 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Pend Oreille, Spokane	36 min
Mar 31, 3:09 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		21 hr
Mar 31, 4:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	20 min

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	7
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Watch	4
Winter Weather Advisory	11
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	5
Marine
Gale Warning	4
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	25

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. Rebuilt daily.