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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Tucson, AZ

December 3, 2011Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this freeze watch at Dec 3, 2011, 2:09 PM MST for Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona. It took effect at Dec 5, 2011, 2:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 3, 2011, 2:09 PM MST (21:09 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 5, 2011, 2:00 AM MST
Expired: Dec 4, 2011, 2:33 AM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ

Counties Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Dec 3, 2:07 PM MST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 2:07 PM MST, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 3, 6:38 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	TWC	Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal	23 hr
Dec 3, 2:09 PM MST	Freeze Watch	TWC	Pima, Pinal	24 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.