Weather alerts in Washington, May 2025

55 weather alerts in May 2025, 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 55
Warnings: 3
Watches: 4
Advisories: 23
Busiest day: May 18, 202511 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, 2:14 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		42 hr
May 2, 8:37 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	23 hr
May 3, 2:13 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		24 hr
May 4, 12:52 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	PQR	Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania	18 hr
May 6, 12:58 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		37 hr
May 11, 2:55 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		71 hr
May 12, 6:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	49 min
May 13, 3:12 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		48 hr
May 13, 6:14 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	3 hr
May 14, 2:07 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	8 hr
May 16, 2:28 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
May 16, 2:02 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		39 hr
May 16, 2:02 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		37 hr
May 17, 2:19 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	42 hr
May 17, 3:37 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Yakima	23 min
May 17, 4:06 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Benton	24 min
May 17, 4:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Benton	36 min
May 17, 4:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Franklin	25 min
May 17, 5:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Franklin	28 min
May 17, 5:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Walla Walla	37 min
May 17, 5:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Walla Walla	29 min
May 17, 6:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Walla Walla	28 min
May 17, 8:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Benton	24 min
May 17, 8:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Benton	29 min
May 17, 9:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Benton	30 min
May 18, 2:42 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		20 hr
May 18, 2:42 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		65 hr
May 18, 12:08 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 4 more	14 hr
May 18, 2:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	62 min
May 19, 7:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	43 min
May 19, 8:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	33 min
May 19, 8:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	31 min
May 19, 9:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	51 min
May 19, 9:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	43 min
May 19, 9:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	26 min
May 19, 10:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	49 min
May 19, 10:56 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	64 min
May 20, 3:05 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		19 hr
May 20, 1:32 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens	17 hr
May 25, 7:08 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Klickitat	87 min
May 25, 7:43 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Yakima	32 min
May 25, 8:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	35 min
May 26, 2:33 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		15 hr
May 27, 2:42 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		11 hr
May 27, 2:04 PM PDT	Gale Warning	SEW		33 hr
May 27, 2:04 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		33 hr
May 28, 2:27 AM PDT	Gale Watch	SEW		24 hr
May 29, 2:20 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		21 hr
May 29, 1:24 PM PDT	High Wind Watch	PDT	Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima	22 hr
May 29, 4:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	32 min
May 29, 4:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Pend Oreille	33 min
May 30, 9:32 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant	37 hr
May 30, 11:32 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	36 hr
May 30, 11:45 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima	35 hr
May 31, 2:12 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		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	25
Cold
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	7
Marine
Gale Warning	2
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	13

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.