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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 2023Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this freeze warning at Apr 16, 2023, 1:53 PM CDT for Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 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: Apr 16, 2023, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 17, 2023, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 5:33 AM CDT, 8 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 9:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 2:32 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 23 more	16 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Missouri, 2023 Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2023 Every 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.