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Freeze Watch 2, NWS New York, NY

October 20, 2018Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze watch at Oct 20, 2018, 4:06 AM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It took effect at Oct 22, 2018, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 20, 2018, 4:06 AM EDT (08:06 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2018, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 21, 2018, 3:26 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Oct 20, 3:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 3:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 3:28 PM EDT, 12 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 20, 4:02 AM EDT	Gale Watch	OKX	11 hr
Oct 20, 10:40 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	OKX	17 hr
Oct 20, 2:55 PM EDT	Gale Warning	OKX	27 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in New York, 2018 Every freeze watch 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.