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Red Flag Warnings in Washington, 2024

41 red flag warnings 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 red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.

Red Flag Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Red Flag Warnings
41
Busiest month
July19 red flag warnings
Busiest day
July 16, 20244 red flag warnings

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
Jun 22, 12:34 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima31 hr
Jun 22, 12:54 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 6 more31 hr
Jul 5, 3:25 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima18 hr
Jul 5, 3:28 AM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant19 hr
Jul 5, 2:09 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more4 days
Jul 7, 6:08 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan, Okanogan53 hr
Jul 8, 9:50 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTAsotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Kittitas and 3 more3 days
Jul 9, 1:30 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan34 hr
Jul 13, 2:05 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 1 more31 hr
Jul 13, 2:50 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima30 hr
Jul 16, 9:08 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima37 hr
Jul 16, 1:04 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPQRClark, Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima28 hr
Jul 16, 1:12 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more35 hr
Jul 16, 1:33 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more33 hr
Jul 20, 6:21 AM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Okanogan65 hr
Jul 20, 12:39 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPQRClark, Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima26 hr
Jul 20, 3:30 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more31 hr
Jul 21, 1:10 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXDouglas, Okanogan33 hr
Jul 23, 12:37 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTAsotin, Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla33 hr
Jul 23, 2:15 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXDouglas, Grant, Okanogan31 hr
Jul 24, 1:45 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 5 more31 hr
Aug 1, 1:05 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan31 hr
Aug 4, 7:44 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more18 hr
Aug 5, 3:46 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTAsotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Klickitat and 2 more37 hr
Aug 5, 1:59 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAsotin, Columbia, Garfield30 hr
Aug 8, 2:05 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWKing, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom34 hr
Aug 9, 3:55 AM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Okanogan20 hr
Aug 10, 3:16 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima17 hr
Aug 11, 3:28 AM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Stevens41 hr
Aug 16, 2:08 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima33 hr
Aug 26, 2:46 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more29 hr
Aug 31, 3:11 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skamania26 hr
Sep 4, 9:26 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPQRClark, Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima3 days
Sep 4, 1:53 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more3 days
Sep 8, 2:33 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTAsotin, Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla19 hr
Sep 8, 1:48 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Lincoln, Spokane and 1 more29 hr
Sep 28, 1:49 PM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more29 hr
Sep 28, 2:02 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTBenton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima29 hr
Oct 3, 2:25 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPQRClark, Skamania18 hr
Oct 3, 10:29 AM PDTRed Flag WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Lincoln, Spokane and 1 more32 hr
Oct 3, 11:24 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDTAsotin, Garfield32 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. July 16, 20244red flag warnings
  2. July 5, 20243red flag warnings
  3. July 20, 20243red flag warnings
  4. August 5, 20243red flag warnings
  5. October 3, 20243red flag warnings
  6. June 22, 20242red flag warnings
  7. July 8, 20242red flag warnings
  8. July 13, 20242red flag warnings
  9. July 23, 20242red flag warnings
  10. September 4, 20242red flag warnings
  11. September 8, 20242red flag warnings
  12. September 28, 20242red flag warnings

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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.