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Flood Watches in Washington, 2012

27 flood watches in 2012. 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
27
Busiest month
January7 flood watches
Busiest day
January 23, 20122 flood watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 3:44 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW17 hr
Jan 2, 4:12 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason50 hr
Jan 18, 8:39 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR56 hr
Jan 19, 3:55 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more71 hr
Jan 23, 10:12 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR45 hr
Jan 23, 3:14 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Thurston39 hr
Jan 27, 3:23 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason60 hr
Feb 20, 2:05 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more62 hr
Feb 20, 8:00 PM PSTFlood WatchOTXChelan22 hr
Feb 23, 10:37 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWKing, Pierce23 hr
Mar 14, 11:39 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason13 hr
Mar 15, 3:09 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston50 hr
Mar 27, 3:21 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason54 hr
Mar 29, 11:40 AM PDTFlood WatchPQR4 days
Mar 29, 1:34 PM PDTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla43 hr
Mar 29, 9:50 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Thurston38 hr
Jun 4, 12:54 PM PDTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla25 hr
Oct 28, 3:04 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWPierce11 hr
Oct 28, 3:43 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Okanogan70 hr
Oct 29, 2:43 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWKing, Mason, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom50 hr
Oct 29, 9:09 PM PDTFlood WatchPQR38 hr
Nov 15, 3:13 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Thurston5 days
Nov 18, 4:06 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR51 hr
Nov 18, 11:41 AM PSTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more69 hr
Nov 30, 11:30 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason2 hr
Dec 3, 8:31 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston55 hr
Dec 19, 11:53 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR29 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 23, 20122flood watches
  2. March 15, 20122flood watches
  3. March 29, 20122flood watches
  4. October 28, 20122flood watches
  5. November 18, 20122flood watches
  6. January 2, 20121flood watches
  7. January 3, 20121flood watches
  8. January 18, 20121flood watches
  9. January 19, 20121flood watches
  10. January 27, 20121flood watches
  11. February 20, 20121flood watches
  12. February 21, 20121flood watches

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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.