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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS

October 10, 200923 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 10, 2009, 4:02 AM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 10, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 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 10, 2009, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 10, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 11, 2009, 2:19 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
All 23 counties

Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 9, 6:41 PM CDT, 9 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 6:41 PM CDT, 9 hours 21 minutes before
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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.