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Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2020

36 winter storm warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
36
Busiest month
January17 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 9, 20204 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 5, 3:39 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR35 hr
Jan 5, 3:55 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX50 hr
Jan 5, 4:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW72 hr
Jan 9, 2:54 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla5 days
Jan 9, 3:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAdams, Asotin, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grant and 6 more51 hr
Jan 9, 3:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR3 days
Jan 9, 3:25 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEWSan Juan3 days
Jan 11, 9:56 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAsotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens48 hr
Jan 14, 9:19 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR4 hr
Jan 14, 3:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEWSan Juan36 hr
Jan 15, 2:36 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more33 hr
Jan 15, 4:12 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW108 min
Jan 15, 8:11 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR16 hr
Jan 17, 4:26 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR23 hr
Jan 17, 1:34 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW25 hr
Jan 17, 2:18 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan25 hr
Jan 20, 2:26 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW36 hr
Feb 4, 3:43 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla47 hr
Feb 4, 3:56 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman38 hr
Feb 7, 12:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW34 hr
Feb 7, 2:54 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX29 hr
Feb 8, 1:38 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla20 hr
Feb 14, 11:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla42 hr
Feb 22, 3:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW43 hr
Mar 12, 3:50 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXAdams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more43 hr
Mar 29, 3:29 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW44 hr
Oct 22, 2:52 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXDouglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 2 more43 hr
Nov 12, 3:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW48 hr
Nov 12, 4:26 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR38 hr
Nov 12, 8:24 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla44 hr
Nov 12, 9:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAsotin, Ferry, Garfield, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more43 hr
Nov 14, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR17 hr
Dec 12, 2:13 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla38 hr
Dec 21, 3:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW19 hr
Dec 29, 4:03 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAdams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 3 more58 hr
Dec 30, 2:53 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla36 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 9, 20204winter storm warnings
  2. November 12, 20204winter storm warnings
  3. January 5, 20203winter storm warnings
  4. January 17, 20203winter storm warnings
  5. January 14, 20202winter storm warnings
  6. January 16, 20202winter storm warnings
  7. February 4, 20202winter storm warnings
  8. February 7, 20202winter storm warnings
  9. January 11, 20201winter storm warnings
  10. January 15, 20201winter storm warnings
  11. January 20, 20201winter storm warnings
  12. February 8, 20201winter 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.