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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

October 9, 201915 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 9, 2019, 4:03 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 10, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 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 9, 2019, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 10, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 11, 2019, 9:39 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 9, 12:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 12:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 3:41 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln, McPherson and 5 more	25 hr

Nearby

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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.