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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 18, 2013Collingsworth County, Donley County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 18, 2013, 3:17 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Donley County, Wheeler County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2013, 9:00 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 18, 2013, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 18, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 19, 2013, 9:06 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 18, 12:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 12:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 3:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
317 PM CDT THU APR 18 2013

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-190900-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
317 PM CDT THU APR 18 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ANOTHER WIDESPREAD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES TONIGHT. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

WIDESPREAD FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO FRIDAY
MORNING. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT.

ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE ON SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE
NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY.
PRECIPITATION MAY BRIEFLY TRANSITION TOWARD A WINTRY MIX OVER THE
EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE FAR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE
BEFORE ENDING EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT
THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

AREA FIRE MANAGERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ON
SATURDAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 18, 9:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 18, 2:39 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 3:17 PM CDTHard Freeze WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford and 11 more18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 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.