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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 30, 20176 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 30, 2017, 3:50 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 30, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 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
Apr 30, 2017, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 30, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 1, 2017, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Apr 29, 6:52 PM CDT, 20 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 6:52 PM CDT, 20 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 3:48 AM CDTWind AdvisoryAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 12 more16 hr
Apr 30, 10:25 AM CDTBlizzard WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Sherman9 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2017Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2017Every freeze warning in 2017

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.