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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA

November 17, 2016Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this freeze warning at Nov 17, 2016, 9:38 AM PST for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Nov 18, 2016, 2:00 AM PST. It was in force for 7 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: Nov 17, 2016, 9:38 AM PST (17:38 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 18, 2016, 2:00 AM PST
Expired: Nov 18, 2016, 9:00 AM PST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 Nov 16, 3:00 PM PST, 18 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 3:00 PM PST, 18 hours 38 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	Lasted
Nov 17, 9:38 AM PST	Frost Advisory	LOX	23 hr
Nov 17, 9:38 AM PST	Hard Freeze Warning	LOX	23 hr
Nov 17, 2:20 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	LOX	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in California, 2016 Every freeze warning in 2016

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.