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Freeze Watch 7, NWS Medford, OR

May 22, 2012Klamath County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this freeze watch at May 22, 2012, 2:58 AM PDT for Klamath County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at May 23, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2012, 2:58 AM PDT (09:58 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT
Expired: May 22, 2012, 2:20 PM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Klamath County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at May 22, 2:58 AM PDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:58 AM PDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 5:07 PM PDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 11:05 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	MFR		18 hr
May 21, 11:05 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MFR		27 hr
May 22, 2:20 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	MFR	Klamath	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in California, 2012 Freeze Watches in Oregon, 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.