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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2009

50 winter storm watches in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
50
Busiest month
March15 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 3, 20094 winter storm watches

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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 3, 3:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grant and 6 more33 hr
Jan 3, 3:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW25 hr
Jan 3, 2:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR6 hr
Jan 3, 3:04 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Yakima18 hr
Feb 8, 2:27 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR35 hr
Feb 8, 3:02 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW25 hr
Feb 23, 4:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens8 hr
Mar 3, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield38 hr
Mar 4, 3:40 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla25 hr
Mar 6, 4:27 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Mar 6, 9:26 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR17 hr
Mar 23, 10:37 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 23, 2:31 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield25 hr
Mar 23, 2:34 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla20 hr
Mar 24, 3:00 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Mar 26, 2:43 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 27, 9:21 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Mar 28, 3:25 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield12 hr
Mar 28, 3:41 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla5 hr
Mar 30, 4:01 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Mar 31, 2:41 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Mar 31, 4:32 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Apr 1, 3:42 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens11 hr
Apr 1, 3:45 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla12 hr
Oct 2, 2:42 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla13 hr
Oct 25, 9:52 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 hr
Oct 28, 2:56 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Nov 5, 5:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW23 hr
Nov 6, 3:44 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens25 hr
Nov 11, 3:04 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Nov 17, 4:06 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Nov 18, 3:52 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan8 hr
Nov 19, 4:19 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Nov 19, 4:37 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT24 hr
Nov 20, 2:27 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR14 hr
Nov 20, 9:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW7 hr
Nov 20, 9:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more18 hr
Nov 21, 4:33 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla11 hr
Dec 10, 10:29 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR19 hr
Dec 11, 3:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman11 hr
Dec 11, 3:56 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla11 hr
Dec 13, 2:24 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR13 hr
Dec 13, 2:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more14 hr
Dec 13, 3:13 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more24 hr
Dec 13, 3:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Dec 28, 2:48 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR30 hr
Dec 30, 3:59 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Dec 30, 4:01 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan23 hr
Dec 30, 4:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Dec 30, 4:27 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more10 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.

Nearby

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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.