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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 202622 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Apr 17, 2026, 10:22 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2026, 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: Apr 17, 2026, 10:22 AM CDT (15:22 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2026, 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 15:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 Apr 17, 5:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 5:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 10:22 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa, Stafford	23 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2026 Every freeze warning in 2026

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.