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High Wind Watches in Washington, 2008

16 high wind watches in 2008. 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 in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
16
Busiest month
December9 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 3, 20083 high wind 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 3, 2:14 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR11 hr
Jan 3, 2:46 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla13 hr
Jan 3, 3:15 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEWSan Juan18 hr
Jan 13, 2:59 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan13 hr
Jan 28, 4:01 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR5 hr
Sep 8, 2:45 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchOTXDouglas, Okanogan14 hr
Nov 10, 2:31 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more24 hr
Dec 10, 2:01 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR24 hr
Dec 10, 3:48 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEWSan Juan37 hr
Dec 11, 3:26 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla30 hr
Dec 12, 4:46 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEWSan Juan17 hr
Dec 17, 4:00 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEWSan Juan20 hr
Dec 18, 4:20 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEW24 hr
Dec 25, 7:58 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR7 hr
Dec 29, 2:46 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR23 hr
Dec 29, 8:41 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEW7 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 3, 20083high wind watches
  2. December 10, 20082high wind watches
  3. January 13, 20081high wind watches
  4. January 28, 20081high wind watches
  5. September 8, 20081high wind watches
  6. November 10, 20081high wind watches
  7. December 11, 20081high wind watches
  8. December 12, 20081high wind watches
  9. December 17, 20081high wind watches
  10. December 19, 20081high wind watches
  11. December 26, 20081high wind watches
  12. December 29, 20081high wind 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.