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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2012

56 winter storm watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

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

Winter Storm Watches
56
Busiest month
December16 winter storm watches
Busiest day
November 30, 20124 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 15, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more30 hr
Jan 15, 3:23 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more55 hr
Jan 16, 4:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan35 hr
Jan 16, 4:43 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR35 hr
Jan 16, 10:17 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW10 hr
Jan 18, 2:47 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla5 hr
Jan 19, 3:28 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW35 hr
Jan 19, 4:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more24 hr
Jan 23, 2:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW15 hr
Jan 23, 2:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR7 hr
Jan 23, 2:37 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT6 hr
Jan 27, 3:23 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Feb 16, 2:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens33 hr
Feb 23, 3:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens14 hr
Feb 23, 4:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Feb 27, 2:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens26 hr
Feb 27, 8:48 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKlickitat, Yakima19 hr
Feb 28, 4:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW7 hr
Mar 8, 3:25 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 11, 4:34 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan11 hr
Mar 11, 4:37 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Mar 11, 3:36 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens6 hr
Mar 13, 4:44 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Mar 13, 3:21 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 hr
Mar 18, 3:10 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Mar 19, 3:29 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR6 hr
Mar 27, 8:40 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW30 hr
Mar 28, 6:14 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTX9 hr
Apr 2, 3:44 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Apr 2, 2:20 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla14 hr
Oct 21, 3:30 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens18 hr
Nov 7, 3:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXSpokane, Whitman24 hr
Nov 10, 3:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan13 hr
Nov 10, 3:29 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima12 hr
Nov 17, 3:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Nov 17, 3:09 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Nov 30, 1:35 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR20 hr
Nov 30, 2:25 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima23 hr
Nov 30, 3:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Nov 30, 3:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Dec 2, 2:31 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Dec 3, 3:32 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Dec 5, 2:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla18 hr
Dec 5, 3:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield24 hr
Dec 15, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 6 more31 hr
Dec 15, 1:49 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW20 hr
Dec 15, 2:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR13 hr
Dec 15, 2:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima12 hr
Dec 17, 4:59 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW7 hr
Dec 17, 4:57 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima23 hr
Dec 18, 2:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more13 hr
Dec 18, 3:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW10 hr
Dec 18, 4:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR8 hr
Dec 23, 2:26 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Dec 23, 2:36 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKlickitat24 hr
Dec 23, 3:50 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 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. November 30, 20124winter storm watches
  2. December 15, 20124winter storm watches
  3. December 18, 20124winter storm watches
  4. January 16, 20123winter storm watches
  5. January 23, 20123winter storm watches
  6. March 11, 20123winter storm watches
  7. December 23, 20123winter storm watches
  8. January 15, 20122winter storm watches
  9. January 19, 20122winter storm watches
  10. February 27, 20122winter storm watches
  11. March 13, 20122winter storm watches
  12. April 2, 20122winter 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. Rebuilt daily.