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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2017

29 winter storm watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
29
Busiest month
January10 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 7, 20174 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 5, 4:10 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Jan 6, 3:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW255 days
Jan 6, 3:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla24 hr
Jan 15, 2:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more24 hr
Jan 15, 9:35 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW302 days
Jan 16, 5:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Jan 16, 2:52 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla16 hr
Jan 29, 3:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla13 hr
Jan 29, 3:14 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman20 hr
Jan 31, 1:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR50 hr
Feb 1, 5:58 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more28 hr
Feb 2, 3:36 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens10 hr
Feb 4, 5:57 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Feb 4, 1:18 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT7 hr
Feb 7, 3:37 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima11 hr
Feb 7, 3:41 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more12 hr
Feb 7, 5:31 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Feb 7, 3:32 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW284 days
Feb 13, 2:07 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Feb 14, 2:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW307 days
Mar 6, 4:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla10 hr
Mar 6, 3:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW297 days
Oct 31, 2:46 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Nov 13, 2:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX12 hr
Nov 14, 9:46 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT5 hr
Nov 18, 3:27 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Dec 17, 2:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Dec 23, 12:12 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Dec 27, 3:46 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens11 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. February 7, 20174winter storm watches
  2. January 6, 20173winter storm watches
  3. January 16, 20173winter storm watches
  4. January 29, 20172winter storm watches
  5. February 4, 20172winter storm watches
  6. March 6, 20172winter storm watches
  7. January 15, 20171winter storm watches
  8. January 31, 20171winter storm watches
  9. February 1, 20171winter storm watches
  10. February 2, 20171winter storm watches
  11. February 13, 20171winter storm watches
  12. February 14, 20171winter 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.