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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2016

30 winter storm watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
30
Busiest month
December14 winter storm watches
Busiest day
December 25, 20164 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 12, 3:12 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 hr
Jan 12, 3:54 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more8 hr
Jan 12, 4:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima5 hr
Jan 15, 2:55 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan12 hr
Jan 15, 2:57 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Jan 18, 3:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Jan 20, 3:28 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX12 hr
Jan 27, 3:29 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 12, 3:43 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW10 hr
Mar 12, 4:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR22 hr
Nov 22, 2:39 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Nov 22, 2:52 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW19 hr
Nov 22, 3:18 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR22 hr
Nov 23, 9:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW18 hr
Nov 26, 3:50 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR25 hr
Nov 26, 12:21 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW16 hr
Dec 2, 2:36 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW14 hr
Dec 4, 1:07 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW26 hr
Dec 6, 2:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Dec 6, 2:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more32 hr
Dec 6, 2:25 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 5 more64 hr
Dec 6, 8:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan19 hr
Dec 12, 2:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima25 hr
Dec 13, 3:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Dec 18, 3:34 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Dec 18, 2:51 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Dec 25, 3:12 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Dec 25, 1:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 3 more22 hr
Dec 25, 2:32 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla14 hr
Dec 25, 2:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 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. December 25, 20164winter storm watches
  2. January 12, 20163winter storm watches
  3. November 22, 20163winter storm watches
  4. December 6, 20163winter storm watches
  5. January 15, 20162winter storm watches
  6. March 12, 20162winter storm watches
  7. November 26, 20162winter storm watches
  8. December 18, 20162winter storm watches
  9. January 18, 20161winter storm watches
  10. January 20, 20161winter storm watches
  11. January 27, 20161winter storm watches
  12. November 23, 20161winter 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.