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Flood Watches in Washington, 2023

28 flood watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
28
Busiest month
December7 flood watches
Busiest day
May 15, 20233 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
Feb 5, 10:37 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason53 hr
Apr 8, 9:50 AM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason12 hr
Apr 9, 3:21 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens43 hr
May 3, 8:51 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXAsotin, Chelan, Ferry, Garfield, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more3 days
May 15, 11:19 AM PDTFlood WatchSEW11 hr
May 15, 11:21 AM PDTFlood WatchPQR11 hr
May 15, 11:28 AM PDTFlood WatchPDTColumbia, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Yakima11 hr
May 16, 2:26 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXAsotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Okanogan and 4 more18 hr
Jun 7, 9:31 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens62 hr
Jun 10, 2:51 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXOkanogan12 hr
Jun 24, 1:54 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXOkanogan15 hr
Jun 25, 1:30 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXOkanogan17 hr
Jun 26, 1:17 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Okanogan20 hr
Jun 27, 1:50 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Okanogan19 hr
Jul 9, 3:10 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXOkanogan28 hr
Aug 5, 6:00 AM PDTFlood WatchOTXAsotin, Chelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more62 hr
Aug 19, 12:59 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXAsotin, Ferry, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Stevens3 days
Aug 28, 2:20 PM PDTFlood WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Stevens39 hr
Nov 1, 1:21 PM PDTFlood WatchSEWMason22 hr
Nov 9, 10:52 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason44 hr
Nov 12, 2:56 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason19 hr
Nov 30, 9:35 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more6 days
Dec 1, 5:29 AM PSTFlood WatchPQR5 days
Dec 3, 1:55 PM PSTFlood WatchOTXChelan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman47 hr
Dec 7, 4:04 PM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason60 hr
Dec 8, 7:41 PM PSTFlood WatchPQR43 hr
Dec 10, 4:14 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWGrays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston22 hr
Dec 25, 4:32 AM PSTFlood WatchSEWMason10 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. May 15, 20233flood watches
  2. December 1, 20232flood watches
  3. February 5, 20231flood watches
  4. April 8, 20231flood watches
  5. April 9, 20231flood watches
  6. May 4, 20231flood watches
  7. May 16, 20231flood watches
  8. June 7, 20231flood watches
  9. June 10, 20231flood watches
  10. June 24, 20231flood watches
  11. June 25, 20231flood watches
  12. June 26, 20231flood 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.