Alert archive / Washington / Winter Storm Watches / 2012
Winter Storm Watches in Washington, December 2012
16 winter storm watches in December 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 December 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- December 15, 20124 winter storm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2:31 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 24 hr |
| Dec 3, 3:32 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Dec 5, 2:42 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 18 hr |
| Dec 5, 3:16 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 24 hr |
| Dec 15, 4:05 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 6 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:49 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Dec 15, 2:20 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 13 hr | |
| Dec 15, 2:46 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 12 hr |
| Dec 17, 4:59 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Dec 17, 4:57 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 23 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:49 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:51 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 10 hr | |
| Dec 18, 4:08 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 8 hr | |
| Dec 23, 2:26 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 23 hr | |
| Dec 23, 2:36 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Klickitat | 24 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:50 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.