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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

May 3, 2017Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze warning at May 3, 2017, 2:39 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at May 4, 2017, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 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: May 3, 2017, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 4, 2017, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 4, 2017, 8:00 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at May 3, 2:13 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:13 PM MDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 10:28 AM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 2:24 AM MDT	Frost Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more	30 hr
May 3, 2:24 AM MDT	Freeze Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2017 Every 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.