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Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2023

31 winter storm watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
31
Busiest month
February13 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 6, 20233 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
Feb 5, 2:19 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Feb 6, 3:07 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT12 hr
Feb 6, 3:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR10 hr
Feb 6, 3:52 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan11 hr
Feb 11, 3:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan21 hr
Feb 11, 3:08 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW21 hr
Feb 11, 6:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT20 hr
Feb 18, 1:52 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT13 hr
Feb 18, 2:04 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan44 hr
Feb 18, 2:06 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Feb 19, 2:41 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR18 hr
Feb 19, 2:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla7 hr
Feb 24, 2:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR13 hr
Mar 2, 12:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR16 hr
Mar 3, 3:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW11 hr
Mar 8, 2:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla12 hr
Mar 12, 1:31 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR11 hr
Mar 21, 2:44 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Mar 21, 2:46 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 29, 2:35 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPQR24 hr
Mar 29, 2:36 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchPDTKittitas, Yakima24 hr
Mar 29, 2:46 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW24 hr
Mar 29, 6:54 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan20 hr
Oct 22, 1:53 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Ferry, Okanogan23 hr
Oct 22, 4:19 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSEW23 hr
Nov 9, 11:07 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Okanogan16 hr
Nov 9, 12:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW16 hr
Nov 28, 2:13 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPQR36 hr
Nov 29, 12:16 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXChelan, Okanogan20 hr
Nov 29, 2:02 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSEW13 hr
Nov 29, 2:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDTColumbia, Walla Walla13 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 6, 20233winter storm watches
  2. February 18, 20233winter storm watches
  3. March 29, 20233winter storm watches
  4. November 29, 20233winter storm watches
  5. February 11, 20232winter storm watches
  6. February 19, 20232winter storm watches
  7. March 21, 20232winter storm watches
  8. October 22, 20232winter storm watches
  9. November 9, 20232winter storm watches
  10. February 5, 20231winter storm watches
  11. February 12, 20231winter storm watches
  12. February 24, 20231winter 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.