Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2018

Freeze Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 14, 201821 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 14, 2018, 2:04 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 15, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT. 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: Apr 14, 2018, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 15, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 15, 2018, 8:32 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

All 21 counties

Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Apr 14, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 8:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 7:03 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	3 hr
Apr 13, 9:09 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more	6 hr
Apr 14, 2:44 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more	18 hr
Apr 14, 2:44 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 15 more	11 hr
Apr 14, 2:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more	16 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 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.