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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 21, 20185 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 21, 2018, 2:12 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Oct 22, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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: Oct 21, 2018, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 22, 2018, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Caroline County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Louisa County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 20, 7:29 PM EDT, 18 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 7:29 PM EDT, 18 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 21, 3:39 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 27 more	28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2018 Every freeze warning in 2018

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.