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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2018

26 winter storm watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
26
Busiest month
January9 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 15, 20183 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 9, 1:19 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW21 hr
Jan 9, 3:19 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Jan 10, 3:18 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla12 hr
Jan 19, 3:28 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW23 hr
Jan 20, 2:20 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan12 hr
Jan 22, 1:54 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens12 hr
Jan 22, 2:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW8 hr
Jan 25, 1:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla14 hr
Jan 25, 2:25 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Feb 12, 1:57 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXLincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman23 hr
Feb 15, 1:45 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR26 hr
Feb 15, 1:49 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW21 hr
Feb 15, 2:40 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens23 hr
Feb 17, 3:13 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW8 hr
Feb 23, 3:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR31 hr
Feb 23, 3:04 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW18 hr
Feb 27, 3:32 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Mar 7, 2:40 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Apr 12, 3:17 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Nov 21, 9:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW18 hr
Dec 10, 2:37 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens12 hr
Dec 10, 2:53 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT10 hr
Dec 10, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW10 hr
Dec 11, 3:02 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Dec 16, 2:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Dec 16, 8:47 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens17 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 15, 20183winter storm watches
  2. December 10, 20183winter storm watches
  3. January 9, 20182winter storm watches
  4. January 22, 20182winter storm watches
  5. January 25, 20182winter storm watches
  6. February 23, 20182winter storm watches
  7. January 10, 20181winter storm watches
  8. January 19, 20181winter storm watches
  9. January 20, 20181winter storm watches
  10. February 12, 20181winter storm watches
  11. February 17, 20181winter storm watches
  12. February 27, 20181winter 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.