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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2021

34 winter storm watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
34
Busiest month
December16 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 24, 20214 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 3, 3:55 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR9 hr
Jan 3, 5:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan9 hr
Jan 3, 6:18 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 hr
Jan 10, 3:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Jan 10, 3:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXFerry, Okanogan24 hr
Feb 9, 2:50 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTKlickitat25 hr
Feb 9, 2:07 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW62 hr
Feb 9, 2:51 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Feb 13, 7:43 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman9 hr
Feb 13, 7:45 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla8 hr
Feb 20, 2:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW37 hr
Feb 20, 3:14 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX37 hr
Feb 24, 2:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla17 hr
Feb 24, 3:17 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR17 hr
Feb 24, 3:34 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Feb 24, 3:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield16 hr
Mar 26, 3:35 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW20 hr
Nov 8, 3:06 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Dec 9, 2:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens36 hr
Dec 9, 2:50 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla31 hr
Dec 9, 3:41 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW25 hr
Dec 9, 3:50 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR25 hr
Dec 17, 3:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan11 hr
Dec 17, 3:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Dec 17, 3:53 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Dec 17, 1:53 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens13 hr
Dec 18, 3:17 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima11 hr
Dec 18, 8:39 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR7 hr
Dec 20, 2:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Dec 21, 3:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW12 hr
Dec 21, 4:33 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens10 hr
Dec 23, 5:09 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR12 hr
Dec 23, 5:05 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR23 hr
Dec 24, 9:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW6 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 24, 20214winter storm watches
  2. December 9, 20214winter storm watches
  3. December 17, 20214winter storm watches
  4. January 3, 20213winter storm watches
  5. February 9, 20213winter storm watches
  6. January 10, 20212winter storm watches
  7. February 14, 20212winter storm watches
  8. February 20, 20212winter storm watches
  9. December 21, 20212winter storm watches
  10. December 24, 20212winter storm watches
  11. March 26, 20211winter storm watches
  12. November 8, 20211winter 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.