Alert archive / Washington / 2022
Weather alerts in Washington, October 2022
53 weather alerts in October 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 October 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 53
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 32
- Busiest day
- October 25, 20228 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 4, 2:31 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Oct 7, 8:23 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PQR | 3 hr | |
| Oct 9, 3:05 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 57 hr | |
| Oct 9, 5:43 PM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PQR | 17 hr | |
| Oct 10, 2:50 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Oct 13, 2:39 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 21 hr |
| Oct 14, 10:02 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | 56 hr | |
| Oct 14, 11:47 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 53 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:06 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 32 hr | |
| Oct 16, 2:44 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Oct 16, 7:17 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Oct 18, 7:10 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PQR | 4 hr | |
| Oct 19, 2:47 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 53 hr | |
| Oct 19, 5:39 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PQR | 5 hr | |
| Oct 21, 2:50 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 56 hr | |
| Oct 21, 4:15 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PQR | 41 hr | |
| Oct 21, 2:25 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 36 hr |
| Oct 22, 3:15 AM PDT | Freeze Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 10 hr |
| Oct 22, 1:19 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 21 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:49 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 13 hr | |
| Oct 23, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 4 days | |
| Oct 23, 5:02 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Okanogan | 48 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:06 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 48 hr | |
| Oct 23, 3:37 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Oct 24, 11:11 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Oct 24, 3:00 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 26 hr | |
| Oct 24, 4:06 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PQR | 41 hr | |
| Oct 24, 10:43 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SEW | King | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:54 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Oct 25, 2:54 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 38 hr | |
| Oct 25, 3:20 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SEW | King, Snohomish | 115 min |
| Oct 25, 9:15 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Oct 25, 1:00 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 18 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:35 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 23 hr |
| Oct 25, 4:46 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:00 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 13 hr | |
| Oct 26, 3:24 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 29 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:42 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 28 hr | |
| Oct 26, 3:42 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 7 days | |
| Oct 28, 7:45 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 5 days | |
| Oct 29, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 3 days | |
| Oct 29, 3:05 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Oct 29, 3:05 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | SEW | San Juan | 23 hr |
| Oct 30, 2:49 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Oct 30, 4:14 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | SEW | 27 hr | |
| Oct 30, 6:46 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | PQR | 20 hr | |
| Oct 31, 12:17 AM PDT | River Flood Warning | SEW | Mason | 16 hr |
| Oct 31, 2:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Oct 31, 3:31 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 49 hr |
| Oct 31, 8:17 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Oct 31, 8:17 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Oct 31, 1:28 PM PDT | Freeze Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 24 hr |
| Oct 31, 1:28 PM PDT | Freeze Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 39 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 9 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Advisory | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 7 |
| Gale Watch | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 15 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- King County5
- Columbia County4
- Walla Walla County4
- Yakima County4
- Lewis County3
- Pierce County3
- Snohomish County3
- Kittitas County3
- Skagit County2
- Skamania County2
- Whatcom County2
- Okanogan County2
- Mason County2
- San Juan County2
- Chelan County1
- Grays Harbor County1
- Kitsap County1
- Thurston County1
- Benton County1
- Franklin County1
- Klickitat County1
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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.