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Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2012

65 winter storm warnings in 2012. 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
65
Busiest month
December19 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 16, 20124 winter storm 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
Jan 13, 10:44 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW41 hr
Jan 16, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more59 hr
Jan 16, 4:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEWSan Juan59 hr
Jan 16, 4:43 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR58 hr
Jan 16, 3:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more4 days
Jan 17, 5:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW34 hr
Jan 18, 7:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla30 hr
Jan 19, 10:39 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW3 hr
Jan 20, 4:19 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more30 hr
Jan 20, 2:51 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW19 hr
Jan 20, 2:52 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR13 hr
Jan 21, 2:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant32 hr
Jan 21, 7:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR16 hr
Jan 22, 3:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT11 hr
Jan 23, 9:03 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima31 hr
Jan 24, 4:39 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW24 hr
Jan 31, 3:14 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW31 hr
Feb 17, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens46 hr
Feb 17, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla43 hr
Feb 17, 4:04 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW36 hr
Feb 18, 2:50 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR17 hr
Feb 21, 3:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW4 hr
Feb 23, 4:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW50 hr
Feb 24, 4:53 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla42 hr
Feb 24, 5:18 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens46 hr
Feb 28, 4:03 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more60 hr
Feb 28, 4:13 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT55 hr
Feb 28, 10:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW13 hr
Mar 4, 12:57 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW33 hr
Mar 11, 4:05 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW36 hr
Mar 11, 3:36 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens43 hr
Mar 12, 3:03 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningPQR26 hr
Mar 13, 3:21 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW47 hr
Mar 19, 2:47 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTX37 hr
Mar 19, 3:57 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW48 hr
Mar 19, 9:14 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningPQR68 hr
Mar 19, 3:12 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima66 hr
Mar 28, 2:55 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW38 hr
Apr 4, 9:52 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens10 hr
Oct 19, 2:52 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW13 hr
Oct 22, 3:25 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens31 hr
Oct 26, 3:17 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTX12 hr
Nov 11, 3:27 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT33 hr
Nov 18, 3:43 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens42 hr
Nov 18, 4:21 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW38 hr
Nov 22, 10:39 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW13 hr
Dec 1, 4:03 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW38 hr
Dec 1, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens42 hr
Dec 4, 3:40 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW8 hr
Dec 5, 2:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla3 days
Dec 6, 9:54 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX36 hr
Dec 6, 12:38 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW27 hr
Dec 16, 3:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima34 hr
Dec 16, 3:10 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more41 hr
Dec 16, 3:20 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW33 hr
Dec 16, 3:31 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR14 hr
Dec 17, 8:57 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR7 hr
Dec 18, 12:26 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR52 hr
Dec 18, 2:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW38 hr
Dec 18, 3:27 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more53 hr
Dec 18, 3:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTKittitas, Yakima48 hr
Dec 24, 8:17 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla7 hr
Dec 24, 1:44 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR23 hr
Dec 24, 2:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima43 hr
Dec 24, 3:36 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW23 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 16, 20124winter storm warnings
  2. March 19, 20124winter storm warnings
  3. December 16, 20124winter storm warnings
  4. December 18, 20124winter storm warnings
  5. December 24, 20124winter storm warnings
  6. January 20, 20123winter storm warnings
  7. February 24, 20123winter storm warnings
  8. February 28, 20123winter storm warnings
  9. January 19, 20122winter storm warnings
  10. January 22, 20122winter storm warnings
  11. January 24, 20122winter storm warnings
  12. February 17, 20122winter storm 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.