Weather alerts in Washington, May 2022

83 weather alerts in May 2022, 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 83
Warnings: 10
Watches: 4
Advisories: 49
Busiest day: May 22, 202210 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
May 1, 8:31 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		44 hr
May 3, 8:03 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 hr
May 4, 3:03 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		47 hr
May 5, 8:30 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		16 hr
May 6, 3:39 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		22 hr
May 6, 3:39 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		45 hr
May 6, 1:53 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Columbia	37 min
May 6, 2:28 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	32 hr
May 6, 2:57 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Clark	73 min
May 6, 5:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Walla Walla	42 min
May 6, 5:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	18 min
May 6, 6:11 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla	64 min
May 6, 6:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	34 min
May 6, 7:37 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Spokane	113 min
May 7, 1:21 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		17 hr
May 7, 12:34 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Walla Walla	23 hr
May 7, 2:21 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Grant	6 hr
May 8, 4:39 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	27 hr
May 8, 2:39 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	18 hr
May 8, 3:17 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		14 hr
May 8, 7:57 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR		11 hr
May 9, 3:18 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		26 hr
May 9, 12:53 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	19 hr
May 9, 1:55 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	62 min
May 9, 1:55 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	62 min
May 9, 2:57 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	17 hr
May 9, 2:57 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	41 hr
May 10, 10:52 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	21 hr
May 10, 5:29 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR		15 hr
May 10, 8:35 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		58 hr
May 11, 3:03 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		19 hr
May 12, 2:45 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		21 hr
May 12, 2:57 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		20 hr
May 12, 3:46 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PQR		18 hr
May 12, 1:38 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Yakima	18 hr
May 12, 8:06 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Douglas	24 min
May 13, 2:40 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		4 days
May 14, 2:29 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		58 hr
May 15, 2:32 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		46 hr
May 15, 8:48 AM PDT	Flood Watch	OTX	Asotin, Garfield, Whitman	12 hr
May 15, 1:49 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Asotin, Columbia, Garfield	116 min
May 16, 2:23 PM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
May 17, 2:33 AM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		48 hr
May 17, 2:12 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more	31 hr
May 17, 2:52 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		58 hr
May 17, 2:55 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	29 hr
May 17, 2:58 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		38 hr
May 17, 3:07 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	Chelan, Okanogan	38 hr
May 17, 3:15 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan	29 hr
May 18, 3:41 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln and 5 more	17 hr
May 19, 1:44 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Spokane, Whitman	29 hr
May 19, 2:37 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	19 hr
May 19, 8:26 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	PDT	Klickitat, Yakima	25 hr
May 20, 11:09 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan	3 hr
May 20, 6:14 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Lincoln	61 min
May 21, 9:24 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Lincoln	51 min
May 21, 11:10 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Lincoln, Spokane	3 hr
May 21, 1:34 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Spokane	3 hr
May 21, 5:22 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Adams, Lincoln	51 min
May 21, 5:23 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		8 hr
May 21, 6:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Thurston	18 min
May 21, 6:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Skagit	19 min
May 21, 6:59 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Snohomish	31 min
May 21, 7:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Island	14 min
May 21, 7:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Snohomish	29 min
May 21, 7:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Snohomish	28 min
May 21, 8:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Snohomish	36 min
May 22, 2:55 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 23, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		26 hr
May 23, 6:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Walla Walla	28 min
May 23, 6:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Whitman	34 min
May 23, 7:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Whitman	33 min
May 23, 8:00 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Whitman	30 min
May 26, 2:51 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		38 hr
May 26, 6:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	SEW	Snohomish	23 min
May 26, 11:46 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Asotin, Garfield, Whitman	3 hr
May 27, 2:53 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		17 hr
May 27, 3:03 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PQR		56 hr
May 27, 2:13 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		10 hr
May 28, 2:39 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		50 hr
May 28, 9:59 AM PDT	Flood Watch	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	29 hr
May 29, 3:07 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	19 hr
May 30, 6:31 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	29 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
Mesoscale Discussion	2
Special Weather Statement	18
Flooding
Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	7
Cold
Freeze Warning	7
Frost Advisory	6
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	6
Marine
Gale Warning	3
Gale Watch	2
Small Craft Advisory	19

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.