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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Riverton, WY

September 20, 2018Lincoln County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this freeze warning at Sep 20, 2018, 2:09 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Wyoming. It took effect at Sep 21, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT. 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: Sep 20, 2018, 2:09 PM MDT (20:09 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 21, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: Sep 21, 2018, 8:00 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Riverton, WY

County Lincoln County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Sep 20, 2:09 PM MDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 2:09 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 19, 9:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	RIW	Park	39 min
Sep 20, 2:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	RIW	Big Horn	22 min
Sep 20, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	RIW	Hot Springs	30 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Wyoming, 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.