RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
340 AM PDT TUE OCT 21 2003


...THE WETTEST DAY IN SEATTLE WEATHER HISTORY...SINCE 1891...

...RECORD RAINFALL IN WESTERN WASHINGTON ON MONDAY OCT 20TH...

NUMEROUS DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS WERE BROKEN ACROSS WESTERN
WASHINGTON TODAY. SEA-TAC AIRPORT ALSO EXCEEDED ITS ALL-TIME DAILY
RAINFALL RECORD. A SUMMARY OF RAINFALL RECORDS BROKEN FOLLOWS:

LOCATION           MONDAY RAINFALL      PREVIOUS RECORD / YEAR

SHELTON              7.20 INCHES          1.55 INCHES / 1966
HOQUIAM              5.39 INCHES          0.93 INCHES / 1956
SEA-TAC AIRPORT      5.02 INCHES          1.27 INCHES / 1956
OLYMPIA              4.12 INCHES          1.69 INCHES / 1956
NOAA SANDPOINT       3.59 INCHES          0.85 INCHES / 2000
PORT ANGELES         2.36 INCHES          1.67 INCHES / 1956
STAMPEDE PASS        2.28 INCHES          1.65 INCHES / 1946
BELLINGHAM           1.40 INCHES          0.55 INCHES / 1978

THE ALL-TIME WETTEST DAY AT SEA-TAC WAS 11/20/1959 WITH 3.41 INCHES.

THE ALL-TIME WETTEST DAY AT OLYMPIA IS 11/19/1962 WITH 4.33
INCHES...MONDAY RANKS AS THE SECOND WETTEST DAY IN HISTORY AT
OLYMPIA.

THE GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AT SEA-TAC WAS 3.74 INCHES SET ON
OCTOBER 5TH AND 6TH IN 1981.

THE GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN
SEATTLE WAS 3.52 INCHES ON DECEMBER 11TH AND 12TH IN 1921.

OTHER NOTABLE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ON MONDAY...UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME IF
THESE AMOUNTS ARE RECORDS.

RENTON               4.48 INCHES
FRIDAY HARBOR        1.77 INCHES
BOEING FIELD         4.04 INCHES
PAINE FIELD          1.79 INCHES