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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 1, 20137 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze watch at May 1, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 2, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
In effect from
May 2, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 2, 2013, 2:02 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at May 1, 4:59 AM CDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 4:59 AM CDT, 1 minute before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 5:00 AM CDTFreeze WatchDDCClark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 17 more8 hr
May 1, 5:00 AM CDTHard Freeze WatchDDCEllis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 14 more21 hr
May 1, 12:35 PM CDTFreeze WarningDDCClark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 17 more21 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Kansas, 2013Every freeze watch 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.