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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2015
28 winter storm watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 28
- Busiest month
- December16 winter storm watches
- Busiest day
- December 11, 20154 winter storm watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 3:36 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Asotin, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 3 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 2, 6:48 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:25 AM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 24 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:25 AM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 12 hr | |
| Oct 30, 2:42 PM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 24 hr | |
| Nov 9, 4:02 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 30 hr | |
| Nov 9, 4:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Nov 13, 3:11 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 13 hr | |
| Nov 15, 4:24 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Nov 22, 2:58 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 25 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:51 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 13 hr | |
| Nov 30, 2:56 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 13 hr |
| Dec 1, 9:38 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 16 hr | |
| Dec 1, 10:32 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan | 17 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:30 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:36 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 29 hr | |
| Dec 11, 3:25 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan | 12 hr |
| Dec 11, 4:13 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 34 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:55 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 23 hr |
| Dec 15, 3:48 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 15, 4:53 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 34 hr | |
| Dec 15, 3:10 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 25 hr | |
| Dec 16, 2:38 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 11 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:53 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 14 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:19 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 12 hr |
| Dec 21, 2:36 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Dec 21, 2:56 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PQR | 7 hr | |
| Dec 22, 4:08 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 11 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.
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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.