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Freeze Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 15, 202322 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2023, 2:34 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 16, 2023, 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
Oct 15, 2023, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 16, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2023, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
All 22 counties

Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 14, 4:48 PM CDT, 9 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 4:48 PM CDT, 9 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 2:34 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford30 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2023Every freeze warning in 2023

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.