High Wind Watches in Washington
375 high wind watches 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 375
- Busiest year
- 200638 high wind watches
- Average year
- 17over 22 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.
- San Juan County81
- Walla Walla County32
- Columbia County30
- Klickitat County30
- Douglas County28
- Grant County26
- Yakima County25
- Benton County23
- Franklin County23
- Adams County23
- Okanogan County22
- Lincoln County21
- Spokane County21
- Asotin County20
- Garfield County20
- Whitman County20
- Chelan County18
- Kittitas County17
- Pend Oreille County12
- Stevens County12
- Pacific County7
- Ferry County6
- Cowlitz County3
- Wahkiakum County3
- Clallam County2
- Grays Harbor County2
- Island County2
- Jefferson County2
- King County2
- Kitsap County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Pierce County2
- Skagit County2
- Snohomish County2
- Thurston County2
- Whatcom County2
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 1:49 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:17 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more | 13 hr |
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.