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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 12, 2013Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this freeze warning at Jan 12, 2013, 3:13 AM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Jan 13, 2013, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 8 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: Jan 12, 2013, 3:13 AM PST (11:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2013, 1:00 AM PST
Expired: Jan 13, 2013, 9:00 AM PST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 11, 8:15 PM PST, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 8:15 PM PST, 6 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 11, 11:50 PM PST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 11, 9:22 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		6 hr
Jan 11, 11:23 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	LOX		6 hr
Jan 12, 3:13 AM PST	Frost Advisory	LOX		30 hr
Jan 12, 3:13 AM PST	Freeze Watch	LOX		24 hr
Jan 12, 1:52 PM PST	High Wind Watch	LOX	Los Angeles	31 hr
Jan 12, 2:23 PM PST	Gale Watch	LOX		15 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in California, 2013 Every 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.