Flood Watches in Washington
431 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 431
- Busiest year
- 201737 flood watches
- Average year
- 21over 21 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.
- Mason County195
- Snohomish County92
- Grays Harbor County91
- King County89
- Whatcom County86
- Clallam County82
- Lewis County79
- Skagit County79
- Thurston County75
- Jefferson County72
- Pierce County72
- Okanogan County49
- Chelan County43
- Pend Oreille County40
- Stevens County40
- Ferry County36
- Spokane County33
- Asotin County26
- Whitman County25
- Kitsap County24
- Columbia County23
- Walla Walla County23
- Garfield County23
- Douglas County16
- Yakima County15
- Kittitas County13
- San Juan County11
- Klickitat County11
- Island County10
- Lincoln County10
- Grant County5
- Adams County4
- Clark County4
- Cowlitz County4
- Pacific County4
- Skamania County4
- Wahkiakum County4
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 12:00 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more | 32 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:03 PM PDT | Flood Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 43 hr |
| Apr 21, 8:47 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Whitman | 36 hr |
| Apr 19, 7:36 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 14 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:41 PM PDT | Flood Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 23 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:42 PM PDT | Flood Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 8:03 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan | 17 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:51 PM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | King, Mason, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom | 5 days |
| Mar 12, 3:25 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Asotin, Garfield, Whitman | 22 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:12 AM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston | 47 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:21 PM PDT | Flood Watch | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum | 69 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:27 AM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 63 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.