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Flood Watches in Washington, 2025
25 flood watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 25
- Busiest month
- December8 flood watches
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20252 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2:17 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 14 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:18 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 12 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:18 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 19 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:48 AM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish and 1 more | 5 days |
| Feb 22, 2:46 AM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | Asotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman | 21 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:03 AM PST | Flood Watch | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum | 32 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:55 AM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 23 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:43 AM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Clallam | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:40 PM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 43 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:05 AM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 36 hr |
| Jul 20, 10:55 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 33 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:45 AM PDT | Flood Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:04 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Pend Oreille | 9 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:49 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 29 hr |
| Oct 31, 1:34 PM PDT | Flood Watch | SEW | King, Mason, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom | 38 hr |
| Nov 4, 2:20 AM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 50 hr |
| Nov 6, 12:54 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Snohomish | 11 hr |
| Dec 5, 4:10 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more | 7 days |
| Dec 6, 1:10 AM PST | Flood Watch | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum | 4 days |
| Dec 7, 12:30 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan | 3 days |
| Dec 8, 2:49 AM PST | Flood Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 4 days |
| Dec 13, 2:18 PM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 6 more | 7 days |
| Dec 14, 12:50 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 64 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:56 PM PST | Flood Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 6 days |
| Dec 15, 11:11 AM PST | Flood Watch | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum | 5 days |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mason County10
- Snohomish County5
- King County4
- Skagit County4
- Chelan County4
- Grays Harbor County3
- Lewis County3
- Pierce County3
- Thurston County3
- Clark County3
- Cowlitz County3
- Pacific County3
- Skamania County3
- Wahkiakum County3
- Clallam County3
- Okanogan County3
- Whatcom County3
- Jefferson County2
- Kitsap County2
- Kittitas County2
- Klickitat County2
- Yakima County2
- Asotin County1
- Garfield County1
- Spokane County1
- Whitman County1
- Columbia County1
- Walla Walla County1
- Pend Oreille County1
- Island County1
- San Juan County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.