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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS

October 8, 20178 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze watch at Oct 8, 2017, 4:12 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 10, 2017, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2017, 4:12 AM CDT (09:12 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 10, 2017, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 8, 2017, 3:07 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Oct 8, 2:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 2:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 4:12 AM CDTHard Freeze WatchGLDCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace11 hr
Oct 8, 3:07 PM CDTFreeze WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more43 hr
Oct 8, 3:07 PM CDTHard Freeze WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace43 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Kansas, 2017Freeze Watches in Nebraska, 2017Every 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.