Weather alerts in Washington, May 2024

45 weather alerts in May 2024, 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 45
Warnings: 4
Watches: 3
Advisories: 25
Busiest day: May 29, 20249 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, 2:39 PM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	18 hr
May 2, 2:24 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		30 hr
May 3, 5:41 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	4 days
May 4, 2:38 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		5 days
May 4, 3:10 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	44 hr
May 6, 2:35 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		53 hr
May 6, 2:05 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		42 hr
May 6, 2:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Franklin	29 min
May 6, 8:15 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	27 hr
May 7, 3:43 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR	Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania	28 hr
May 10, 2:02 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		36 hr
May 11, 2:54 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		48 hr
May 11, 2:16 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		36 hr
May 12, 12:36 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	34 hr
May 12, 8:29 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		29 hr
May 13, 8:12 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Chelan, Douglas	4 hr
May 14, 2:43 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 15, 2:43 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		6 days
May 15, 2:17 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more	49 hr
May 15, 2:37 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		44 hr
May 16, 2:14 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	40 hr
May 19, 2:10 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more	18 hr
May 19, 4:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	27 min
May 19, 5:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	29 min
May 19, 5:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	28 min
May 21, 2:00 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		45 hr
May 21, 1:35 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	27 hr
May 21, 8:44 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		14 hr
May 23, 3:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Pend Oreille	28 min
May 24, 2:55 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		44 hr
May 24, 4:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Asotin	28 min
May 25, 8:51 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	14 hr
May 28, 2:23 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 29, 2:00 AM PDT	Freeze Watch	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	9 hr
May 29, 2:20 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 29, 11:19 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	45 hr
May 29, 11:19 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	45 hr
May 29, 2:00 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Whitman	45 min
May 29, 2:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	33 min
May 29, 3:56 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	34 min
May 29, 4:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	34 min
May 29, 4:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	33 min
May 29, 5:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Whitman	47 min
May 29, 5:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	37 min
May 31, 3:24 PM PDT	Flood Watch	SEW	King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish	4 days

By product

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

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Special Weather Statement	13
Flooding
Flood Watch	1
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	8
Marine
Gale Warning	2
Gale Watch	1
Small Craft Advisory	13

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.