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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Northern Indiana

December 23, 2020Cass County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm watch at Dec 23, 2020, 2:36 PM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It took effect at Dec 24, 2020, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2020, 2:36 PM EST (19:36 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2020, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 24, 2020, 3:15 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Cass County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Dec 23, 2:30 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 2:30 PM EST, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 5:51 AM EST, 8 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 22, 10:17 PM EST	Gale Warning	IWX		33 hr
Dec 23, 3:32 AM EST	Wind Advisory	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, White	19 hr
Dec 23, 2:36 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	IWX	Elkhart	48 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Michigan, 2020 Winter Storm Watches in Indiana, 2020 Every winter storm watch in 2020

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.