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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2008

54 winter storm 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
54
Busiest month
December27 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 6, 20084 winter storm 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 6, 1:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR15 hr
Jan 6, 2:43 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more24 hr
Jan 6, 2:53 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Jan 6, 2:57 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Yakima24 hr
Jan 9, 3:41 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 hr
Jan 9, 3:44 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Jan 9, 4:19 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT12 hr
Jan 25, 3:32 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman19 hr
Jan 25, 4:09 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla27 hr
Jan 28, 3:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR11 hr
Jan 28, 4:55 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan5 hr
Jan 28, 6:42 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla8 hr
Jan 29, 3:18 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXLincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman13 hr
Feb 3, 2:24 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more31 hr
Feb 4, 3:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Feb 4, 3:56 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Feb 4, 4:18 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla16 hr
Feb 5, 8:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR8 hr
Feb 9, 3:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW8 hr
Mar 13, 3:00 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more23 hr
Mar 27, 4:18 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Mar 27, 9:57 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Mar 27, 3:37 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more12 hr
Apr 18, 3:06 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 1 more45 hr
Oct 6, 3:38 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Nov 3, 3:39 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Nov 10, 2:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Dec 10, 2:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR19 hr
Dec 10, 3:02 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW23 hr
Dec 10, 3:31 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grant and 6 more47 hr
Dec 10, 8:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla32 hr
Dec 11, 9:07 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR5 hr
Dec 11, 2:10 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan50 hr
Dec 12, 1:06 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR26 hr
Dec 15, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 2 more24 hr
Dec 15, 3:07 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR25 hr
Dec 15, 3:09 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more48 hr
Dec 15, 3:28 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan37 hr
Dec 18, 1:53 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR26 hr
Dec 19, 3:57 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more35 hr
Dec 19, 4:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more35 hr
Dec 19, 4:25 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan12 hr
Dec 22, 3:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXLincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens23 hr
Dec 22, 3:53 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR26 hr
Dec 23, 4:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan11 hr
Dec 23, 4:35 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKlickitat6 hr
Dec 23, 10:10 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more11 hr
Dec 25, 3:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Dec 25, 3:11 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens14 hr
Dec 25, 8:12 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR7 hr
Dec 29, 1:31 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW14 hr
Dec 29, 2:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR14 hr
Dec 29, 2:47 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Dec 29, 3:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla24 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 6, 20084winter storm watches
  2. December 15, 20084winter storm watches
  3. December 29, 20084winter storm watches
  4. January 9, 20083winter storm watches
  5. January 28, 20083winter storm watches
  6. February 4, 20083winter storm watches
  7. March 27, 20083winter storm watches
  8. December 10, 20083winter storm watches
  9. December 11, 20083winter storm watches
  10. December 19, 20083winter storm watches
  11. December 23, 20083winter storm watches
  12. January 25, 20082winter storm 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.