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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 17, 201317 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 17, 2013, 3:43 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 17, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2013, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 17, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 18, 2013, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver 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, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 warning 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 warning went out at Apr 17, 3:30 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 3:30 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 3:43 PM CDTFreeze WatchAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more24 hr
Apr 17, 3:43 PM CDTHard Freeze WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Sherman19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2013Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013

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.