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Flood Watches in Washington, 2020

21 flood watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
21
Busiest month
January9 flood watches
Busiest day
January 21, 20202 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 5, 2:26 PM PSTFlood WatchPQR21 hr
Jan 6, 3:31 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more43 hr
Jan 7, 4:41 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR8 hr
Jan 9, 4:13 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason39 hr
Jan 21, 2:28 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Mason3 days
Jan 21, 2:26 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston and 1 more64 hr
Jan 23, 8:56 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR12 hr
Jan 26, 9:57 PM PSTFlood WatchPQR30 hr
Jan 29, 12:03 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 6 more4 days
Feb 4, 11:04 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more3 days
Feb 5, 11:01 AM PSTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla46 hr
May 19, 9:59 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Whitman43 hr
May 19, 11:49 AM PDTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla23 hr
May 31, 4:59 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXFerry, Pend Oreille, Stevens6 hr
Nov 12, 9:34 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason24 hr
Nov 16, 11:05 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason29 hr
Dec 16, 3:42 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason13 hr
Dec 18, 3:12 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more68 hr
Dec 18, 12:57 PM PSTFlood WatchPQR55 hr
Dec 21, 4:19 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWSnohomish4 hr
Dec 29, 9:17 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason12 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 21, 20202flood watches
  2. May 19, 20202flood watches
  3. December 18, 20202flood watches
  4. January 5, 20201flood watches
  5. January 6, 20201flood watches
  6. January 7, 20201flood watches
  7. January 10, 20201flood watches
  8. January 23, 20201flood watches
  9. January 27, 20201flood watches
  10. January 29, 20201flood watches
  11. February 4, 20201flood watches
  12. February 5, 20201flood 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.