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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2019

36 winter storm watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
36
Busiest month
February18 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 7, 20194 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 2, 5:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens9 hr
Jan 2, 2:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW14 hr
Jan 2, 2:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT22 hr
Jan 21, 2:38 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Feb 2, 2:44 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima24 hr
Feb 3, 2:35 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Feb 7, 3:36 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan12 hr
Feb 7, 4:42 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln and 4 more24 hr
Feb 7, 2:06 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR15 hr
Feb 7, 3:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more18 hr
Feb 9, 3:30 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan36 hr
Feb 10, 3:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 2 more15 hr
Feb 11, 6:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Feb 13, 3:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Klickitat, Yakima11 hr
Feb 13, 3:59 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR8 hr
Feb 13, 12:56 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Grant2 hr
Feb 18, 2:15 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman24 hr
Feb 18, 2:36 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla12 hr
Feb 18, 2:12 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW14 hr
Feb 21, 2:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR72 hr
Feb 21, 2:44 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more48 hr
Feb 24, 2:59 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman12 hr
Mar 10, 3:11 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXLincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens24 hr
Sep 26, 10:40 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens27 hr
Oct 17, 3:33 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Oct 17, 4:07 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Oct 17, 2:06 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla13 hr
Oct 17, 3:09 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield19 hr
Dec 10, 2:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Dec 10, 2:21 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX13 hr
Dec 10, 6:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Dec 16, 3:56 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Dec 17, 1:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more25 hr
Dec 17, 2:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima23 hr
Dec 17, 9:13 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW30 hr
Dec 30, 3:31 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXPend 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, 20194winter storm watches
  2. October 17, 20194winter storm watches
  3. January 2, 20193winter storm watches
  4. February 13, 20193winter storm watches
  5. February 18, 20193winter storm watches
  6. February 21, 20192winter storm watches
  7. December 10, 20192winter storm watches
  8. December 17, 20192winter storm watches
  9. January 21, 20191winter storm watches
  10. February 2, 20191winter storm watches
  11. February 3, 20191winter storm watches
  12. February 9, 20191winter 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.