Heavy Snow Warnings in Washington
111 heavy snow warnings since 1986. 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 heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 111
- Busiest year
- 200636 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 28over 4 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Spokane County28
- Pend Oreille County24
- Stevens County24
- Okanogan County20
- Douglas County18
- Columbia County15
- Ferry County15
- Grant County15
- Walla Walla County15
- Lincoln County9
- Chelan County8
- Yakima County7
- Kittitas County6
- Whitman County5
- Adams County4
- Asotin County4
- Garfield County4
- Klickitat County3
- San Juan County2
Nearby
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.