Weather alerts in Washington, May 2021

45 weather alerts in May 2021, 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 45
Warnings: 8
Watches: 3
Advisories: 34
Busiest day: May 7, 20217 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 30, 7:23 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	26 hr
May 3, 6:55 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		14 hr
May 5, 2:43 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		36 hr
May 6, 7:55 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		18 hr
May 6, 4:14 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla	5 hr
May 6, 5:47 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		2 hr
May 6, 8:46 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		14 min
May 6, 8:46 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		5 hr
May 7, 2:50 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		24 hr
May 7, 2:50 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 7, 8:33 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	12 hr
May 7, 2:26 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan	5 hr
May 8, 2:41 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		36 hr
May 10, 2:20 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		23 hr
May 11, 2:48 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		25 hr
May 13, 2:46 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		3 days
May 14, 2:59 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		26 hr
May 15, 8:17 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		21 hr
May 15, 2:17 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		13 hr
May 16, 2:47 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		28 hr
May 16, 2:47 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		32 hr
May 17, 2:56 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
May 17, 2:56 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		33 hr
May 17, 2:26 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		17 hr
May 18, 2:41 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more	29 hr
May 18, 2:59 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 19, 2:45 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		48 hr
May 20, 2:40 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		26 hr
May 20, 4:03 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		11 hr
May 21, 2:46 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		23 hr
May 21, 2:46 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		38 hr
May 21, 3:31 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		11 hr
May 22, 2:48 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		24 hr
May 22, 2:48 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 22, 3:23 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		47 hr
May 23, 8:30 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	13 hr
May 25, 2:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 25, 2:31 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		3 days
May 27, 9:19 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW		10 hr
May 27, 9:38 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	10 hr
May 27, 2:09 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OTX	Lincoln	66 min
May 27, 2:25 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OTX	Adams, Grant, Lincoln	2 hr
May 27, 4:32 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OTX	Adams, Lincoln, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman	118 min
May 31, 2:18 AM PDT	Heat Advisory	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more	4 days
May 31, 3:16 AM PDT	Heat Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	4 days

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Heat
Heat Advisory	2
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Dust Storm Advisory	3
Wind Advisory	5
Marine
Gale Warning	7
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	22

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.