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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND

September 21, 20128 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this freeze watch at Sep 21, 2012, 3:52 AM CDT for 8 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 22, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 2012, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 22, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 21, 2012, 3:11 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Sep 21, 3:28 AM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:28 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 3:52 AM CDTWind AdvisoryFGFBecker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more18 hr
Sep 21, 3:11 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryFGFClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more17 hr
Sep 21, 3:11 PM CDTFreeze WarningFGFBenson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina and 3 more17 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in North Dakota, 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.