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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 17, 20086 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this freeze watch at Sep 17, 2008, 2:12 PM EDT for 6 counties in New York. It took effect at Sep 19, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2008, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 19, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 18, 2008, 3:19 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Sep 17, 2:04 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 2:04 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 10:54 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 9:54 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		10 hr
Sep 17, 3:53 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		18 hr

Nearby

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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.