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Flood Watches in Washington, 2016

27 flood watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
27
Busiest month
October7 flood watches
Busiest day
March 7, 20162 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 12, 11:04 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason5 hr
Jan 12, 5:15 PM PSTFlood WatchOTXSpokane, Whitman36 hr
Jan 19, 3:30 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Thurston, Whatcom61 hr
Jan 25, 3:01 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, King, Mason, Skagit, Snohomish and 1 more4 days
Feb 4, 10:31 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason41 hr
Feb 12, 3:22 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason30 hr
Feb 14, 3:22 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce and 3 more43 hr
Feb 28, 4:24 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason47 hr
Mar 4, 4:19 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason7 hr
Mar 7, 3:40 PM PSTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more42 hr
Mar 7, 3:41 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason52 hr
Mar 8, 11:21 AM PSTFlood WatchPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima40 hr
Mar 12, 3:33 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason47 hr
May 13, 2:26 PM PDTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima61 hr
Oct 7, 1:52 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason, Snohomish40 hr
Oct 11, 3:21 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason, Snohomish, Whatcom3 days
Oct 14, 12:46 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more37 hr
Oct 14, 3:17 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWWhatcom24 hr
Oct 18, 9:39 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason50 hr
Oct 19, 10:57 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Douglas36 hr
Oct 20, 11:17 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWKing, Skagit, Snohomish21 hr
Nov 2, 10:27 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason18 hr
Nov 4, 4:37 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason36 hr
Nov 22, 2:29 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason38 hr
Nov 23, 10:13 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR60 hr
Nov 25, 7:30 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston30 hr
Dec 19, 12:51 PM PSTFlood WatchPQR23 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. March 7, 20162flood watches
  2. October 14, 20162flood watches
  3. January 12, 20161flood watches
  4. January 13, 20161flood watches
  5. January 19, 20161flood watches
  6. January 25, 20161flood watches
  7. February 4, 20161flood watches
  8. February 12, 20161flood watches
  9. February 14, 20161flood watches
  10. February 29, 20161flood watches
  11. March 4, 20161flood watches
  12. March 8, 20161flood 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.