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Freeze Watch 4, NWS Northern Indiana

April 22, 201221 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this freeze watch at Apr 22, 2012, 3:52 AM EDT for 21 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 23, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2012, 3:52 AM EDT (07:52 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 22, 2012, 3:14 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

All 33 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Apr 22, 1:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 4:08 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		31 hr
Apr 22, 3:14 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	17 hr
Apr 22, 4:25 PM EDT	Gale Watch	IWX		13 hr
Apr 22, 4:25 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		47 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Indiana, 2012 Freeze Watches in Ohio, 2012 Freeze Watches in Michigan, 2012 Every 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.