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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2020

31 winter storm watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
31
Busiest month
January9 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 8, 20204 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 8, 1:43 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla25 hr
Jan 8, 2:10 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR25 hr
Jan 8, 2:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more25 hr
Jan 8, 3:10 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Jan 11, 2:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan23 hr
Jan 14, 3:21 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEWSan Juan12 hr
Jan 14, 8:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens6 hr
Jan 16, 3:21 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW22 hr
Jan 17, 3:15 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan11 hr
Feb 3, 1:09 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla15 hr
Feb 3, 2:31 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield20 hr
Feb 6, 1:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Feb 6, 8:43 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR7 hr
Feb 14, 2:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Feb 14, 3:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Feb 14, 3:40 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla8 hr
Mar 11, 3:16 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 2 more24 hr
Mar 12, 8:59 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima5 hr
Mar 29, 3:07 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTX12 hr
Mar 29, 3:17 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Oct 21, 2:38 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDT24 hr
Oct 21, 2:50 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXDouglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille and 3 more24 hr
Oct 21, 3:28 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Nov 11, 1:28 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW20 hr
Nov 11, 2:24 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla24 hr
Nov 11, 2:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX18 hr
Nov 11, 3:12 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR13 hr
Nov 13, 9:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR7 hr
Dec 12, 3:15 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR11 hr
Dec 28, 4:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW23 hr
Dec 28, 2:44 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR13 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. January 8, 20204winter storm watches
  2. November 11, 20204winter storm watches
  3. February 14, 20203winter storm watches
  4. October 21, 20203winter storm watches
  5. February 3, 20202winter storm watches
  6. March 29, 20202winter storm watches
  7. December 28, 20202winter storm watches
  8. January 11, 20201winter storm watches
  9. January 14, 20201winter storm watches
  10. January 15, 20201winter storm watches
  11. January 16, 20201winter storm watches
  12. January 17, 20201winter 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.