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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 19, 20164 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this freeze watch at Mar 19, 2016, 3:57 AM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 20, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 2016, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 20, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2016, 2:44 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Mar 19, 3:48 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:48 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 3:57 AM CDTFreeze WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more29 hr
Mar 19, 2:44 PM CDTFreeze WatchTSAAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Oklahoma, 2016Every freeze watch 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.