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Freeze Warning 9, NWS Los Angeles, CA

December 3, 2017Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this freeze warning at Dec 3, 2017, 2:36 PM PST for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Dec 4, 2017, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 7 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: Dec 3, 2017, 2:36 PM PST (22:36 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 4, 2017, 1:00 AM PST
Expired: Dec 4, 2017, 8:00 AM PST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 3, 10:13 AM PST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 10:13 AM PST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 7:41 PM PST	Freeze Watch	LOX	Santa Barbara	42 hr
Dec 2, 7:41 PM PST	High Wind Watch	LOX	Los Angeles	19 hr
Dec 2, 7:41 PM PST	Hard Freeze Watch	LOX		42 hr
Dec 2, 8:18 PM PST	Gale Watch	LOX		6 hr
Dec 3, 2:21 AM PST	Beach Hazards Statement	LOX		9 hr
Dec 3, 4:12 AM PST	Wind Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	5 days
Dec 3, 2:36 PM PST	Frost Advisory	LOX		17 hr
Dec 3, 2:36 PM PST	High Wind Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	4 days

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in California, 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.