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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

December 14, 2015San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this freeze watch at Dec 14, 2015, 3:13 PM PST for San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona. It took effect at Dec 16, 2015, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2015, 3:13 PM PST (23:13 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 16, 2015, 10:00 PM PST
Expired: Dec 15, 2015, 1:40 AM PST
In force
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

Counties Mohave County, AZ, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Dec 14, 10:20 AM PST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 10:20 AM PST, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 14, 9:43 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 3:13 PM PST	Hard Freeze Watch	VEF		10 hr
Dec 14, 3:13 PM PST	Hard Freeze Watch	VEF		10 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in California, 2015 Freeze Watches in Arizona, 2015 Every freeze watch in 2015

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.