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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 22, 200817 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 22, 2008, 3:39 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 22, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 22, 2008, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 23, 2008, 9:54 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 22, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	63 min
Oct 22, 4:11 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley, Lipscomb, Moore and 5 more	11 hr
Oct 22, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	59 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2008 Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Every freeze warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.