Weather Warnings
Live National Weather Service alerts for the valley — storms, floods, fire weather and heat — plus the wind in town.
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Live National Weather Service alerts for the valley — storms, floods, fire weather and heat — plus the wind in town.
Weather here turns fast and the valley has one way in. This shows the National Weather Service alerts in force for Chelan County and the central Cascades right now — winter storms and avalanche danger on US-2, flood warnings on the Wenatchee, red-flag fire weather and summer heat — plus the wind in town. It is not an alert service; sign up for the official channels below.
No weather alerts for the Leavenworth area right now.
The National Weather Service has no active alerts for the Leavenworth area, as of Sun 14 June at 15:31.
A light breeze (about 7 km/h, gusts to 13), out of the north-northeast.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 15 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
When a warning is in force
US-2 through Tumwater Canyon is the only direct route to the Seattle side, and WSDOT closes it for avalanche control, rockfall and snow — sometimes for hours, sometimes longer. Check WSDOT before a winter trip; the passenger detour is the Chumstick Highway, and US-97 over Blewett Pass is the longer freight route.
The river through town floods. In December 2025 it crested near 17 feet and destroyed a stretch of US-2 for about two months. A Flood Warning here is serious — don't drive through water across a road, even shallow-looking water.
Most late summers bring wildfire smoke that pushes the air to unhealthy or worse. When a fire is near, watch for Air Quality Alerts here and check the town's air-quality page for the live number.
Alert data: U.S. National Weather Service, source weather.gov — a public-domain product of the U.S. federal government. Alerts are shown as issued; this page reads the active alerts the NWS has posted for the Leavenworth area. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.