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Freeze Watch 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 24, 201217 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze watch at Oct 24, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 26, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 26, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 25, 2012, 4:08 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Oct 24, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 4:35 AM CDTRed Flag WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Sherman13 hr
Oct 24, 3:20 PM CDTFreeze WatchAMAArmstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill and 8 more13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Texas, 2012Freeze Watches in Oklahoma, 2012Every freeze watch in 2012

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.