Flash Flood Watches in Washington
89 flash flood watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 89
- Busiest year
- 201310 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 5over 17 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Okanogan County39
- Chelan County34
- Douglas County24
- Ferry County18
- Stevens County12
- Pend Oreille County11
- Spokane County9
- Columbia County8
- Walla Walla County8
- Kittitas County8
- Yakima County8
- Asotin County7
- Garfield County6
- Grant County6
- Klickitat County6
- Lincoln County5
- Snohomish County4
- Skagit County3
- Whitman County3
- King County2
- Whatcom County2
- Adams County2
- Pierce County2
- Benton County1
- Franklin County1
- Clark County1
- Cowlitz County1
- Skamania County1
- Lewis County1
The latest flash flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:41 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | OTX | Lincoln, Spokane | 17 hr |
| Sep 11, 5:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 51 hr |
Nearby
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.