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High Wind Watches in Washington, 2024

11 high wind watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
11
Busiest month
November6 high wind watches
Busiest day
November 3, 20242 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
Feb 27, 1:07 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla14 hr
Mar 9, 2:19 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRCowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum13 hr
Nov 3, 1:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima12 hr
Nov 3, 2:43 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant12 hr
Nov 11, 1:47 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRPacific11 hr
Nov 17, 2:19 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRPacific24 hr
Nov 18, 3:11 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEW10 hr
Nov 21, 3:35 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRPacific10 hr
Dec 16, 11:51 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRPacific16 hr
Dec 24, 2:17 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQRCowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum23 hr
Dec 24, 3:33 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEWSan Juan34 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. November 3, 20242high wind watches
  2. December 24, 20242high wind watches
  3. February 27, 20241high wind watches
  4. March 9, 20241high wind watches
  5. November 11, 20241high wind watches
  6. November 17, 20241high wind watches
  7. November 18, 20241high wind watches
  8. November 21, 20241high wind watches
  9. December 16, 20241high 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.