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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

April 21, 202318 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this freeze warning at Apr 21, 2023, 2:23 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 22, 2023, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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 21, 2023, 2:23 AM CDT (07:23 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 22, 2023, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 22, 2023, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Apr 20, 5:58 PM CDT, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 5:58 PM CDT, 8 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 2:23 AM CDTFreeze WatchTOPAnderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more24 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.