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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Charleston, SC

March 13, 20175 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this freeze watch at Mar 13, 2017, 3:45 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 15, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2017, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2017, 3:25 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Mar 13, 1:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 3:09 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in South Carolina, 2017 Freeze Watches in Georgia, 2017 Every freeze watch 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.