Alert archive / Washington / 2023
Weather alerts in Washington, September 2023
42 weather alerts in September 2023, 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 September 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 42
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 20
- Busiest day
- September 4, 20237 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:20 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 17 hr | |
| Sep 2, 2:06 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 45 hr | |
| Sep 3, 5:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Ferry | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 5:42 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Spokane | 18 min |
| Sep 3, 5:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Stevens | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 6:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Ferry, Stevens | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 6:24 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Ferry, Stevens | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 7:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Stevens | 27 min |
| Sep 4, 1:40 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Ferry | 2 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:11 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 27 hr | |
| Sep 10, 2:20 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Sep 14, 2:40 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 47 hr | |
| Sep 15, 12:11 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 38 hr | |
| Sep 15, 1:40 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more | 23 hr |
| Sep 15, 1:46 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 23 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:13 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more | 32 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:28 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 56 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:39 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 2 more | 41 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:39 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 4 days | |
| Sep 17, 1:43 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | PQR | 48 hr | |
| Sep 18, 3:17 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 19 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:16 PM PDT | Dust Storm Advisory | OTX | Lincoln | 89 min |
| Sep 18, 1:49 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Sep 18, 1:52 PM PDT | Dust Storm Advisory | OTX | Lincoln, Spokane | 83 min |
| Sep 18, 3:41 PM PDT | Dust Storm Advisory | OTX | Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 64 min |
| Sep 19, 1:56 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 15 hr | |
| Sep 22, 3:11 AM PDT | Gale Watch | SEW | 36 hr | |
| Sep 22, 3:51 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 5 days | |
| Sep 22, 3:51 PM PDT | Storm Watch | SEW | 23 hr | |
| Sep 23, 2:52 PM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 59 hr | |
| Sep 23, 2:52 PM PDT | Storm Warning | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Sep 25, 4:35 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 25 min | |
| Sep 25, 7:05 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 25 min | |
| Sep 26, 12:23 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Kitsap | 37 min |
| Sep 26, 12:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Kitsap | 34 min |
| Sep 27, 12:38 AM PDT | Gale Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Sep 27, 2:18 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 16 hr | |
| Sep 27, 6:48 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | PQR | 3 hr | |
| Sep 28, 2:28 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Sep 28, 6:16 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Stevens | 29 min |
| Sep 29, 2:30 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | SEW | 47 hr | |
| Sep 29, 8:11 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SEW | 3 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 Warning | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Dust Storm Advisory | 3 |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 2 |
| Special Marine Warning | 2 |
| Storm Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 1 |
| Storm Watch | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 13 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Stevens County7
- Ferry County6
- Spokane County6
- Lincoln County6
- Adams County3
- Douglas County3
- Grant County3
- Okanogan County3
- Whitman County3
- Kittitas County3
- Yakima County3
- Asotin County2
- Chelan County2
- Columbia County2
- Garfield County2
- Pend Oreille County2
- Benton County2
- Franklin County2
- Klickitat County2
- Walla Walla County2
- Kitsap 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.