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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 31, 201413 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 31, 2014, 4:37 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 1, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
Oct 31, 2014, 4:37 AM CDT (09:37 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 1, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
Nov 1, 2014, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 31, 4:21 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 4:21 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 30, 7:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills26 min
Oct 30, 8:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills29 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2014Every freeze warning in 2014

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.