National Weather Service Has Issued A Freeze Watch
Freeze Watch
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 417 AM CDT FRI OCT 18 2013 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTH PLAINS REGION THIS AFTERNOON WITH GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS ADVECTING IN COLDER AIR IN ITS WAKE. AN AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT...PROVIDING CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THESE CONDITIONS WILL BE NEARLY IDEAL FOR TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET LATE TONIGHT...WITH LOWS BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 20S AND LOWER 30S. EVEN SPOTS THAT COME UP JUST SHY OF THE FREEZING MARK WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE A FROST. TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-182100- /O.NEW.KLUB.FZ.A.0005.131019T0300Z-131019T1500Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS...PLAINS...DENVER CITY... BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...ODONNELL...POST 417 AM CDT FRI OCT 18 2013 ...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. * EVENT...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE 20S AND LOWER 30S LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST FREEZE OF THE SEASON FOR MANY LOCATIONS ON THE CAPROCK. TEMPERATURES WILL RAPIDLY RISE ABOVE FREEZING SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...THE FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL DAMAGE OR KILL TENDER VEGETATION OR CROPS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE. THESE CONDITIONS COULD KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
