Dodson, Texas

... Freeze warning in effect from midnight tonight to 9 am CST
Tuesday...

The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a freeze
warning... which is in effect from midnight tonight to 9 am CST
Tuesday. The freeze watch is no longer in effect.

Light winds and a very dry airmass in the wake of a cold front
will yield ideal conditions for cold temperatures. Temperatures
are expected to fall below freezing for several hours late Monday
night and early Tuesday... with lows likely 25 to 30 degree range
by sunrise Tuesday. This will bring the first hard freeze to many
locations east of The Caprock.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A freeze warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or
highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive
vegetation.

... Public information statement...

... Fisher-Porter rebuild / fpr/ now implemented at cooperative
station, Pep,Texas, on November 12, 2009 and stations Dumont, Texas,
Childress, Texas, and pitchfork ranch, Texas on November 13,2009.

This equipment modification will change the way the precipitation
measurement is taken. There will be no change in the quality or
the timeliness of this station's hourly precipitation data /hpd/.
Data will continue to be reported in monthly hpd publications.

There are a total of eleven sites to receive the Fisher-Porter
rebuild in the WFO-Lubbock County warning area /cwa/. Sites that
were upgraded are listed with their implementation dates below.

Coop station name... ... ... ... .Coop number... ... ... ... ..implemented
Lubbock 9n... ... ... ... ... ... ..41-5410... ... ... ... ... ... Nov 11 2009
Pep... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 41-6935... ... ... ... ... ... Nov 12 2009
Dumont... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 41-2621... ... ... ... ... ... Nov 13 2009
Childress... ... ... ... ... ... ... 41-1694... ... ... ... ... ... Nov 13 2009
pitchfork ranch... ... ... ... ... 41-7060... ... ... ... ... ... Nov 13 2009

The data from fpr gages will be reported by the National climate
data center /ncdc/ as a monthly product in the hourly precipitation
precipitation data /hpd/ bulletin five months after the month of
measurement.

Information on hpd precipitation products is available from ncdc.

Http://www.Ncdc.NOAA.Gov/oa/mpp/ use lower case letters and
scroll down to /most requested f/ section - the sixth section on
the Page - and then click on the word /Sample/ to view an hpd
bulletin.

If you have any questions regarding the implementation of the
Fisher-Porter rebuild, at the above listed sites, please contact:

Jerry English
NWS/WFO-lub... observations program Leader (opl)
Lubbock, Texas
phone: 806 745-3916 ext 225
email: Jerry.English@noaa.Gov
this and other NWS public information statements are available
online at /use lower case letters/:

http://www.NWS.NOAA.Gov/om/notif.Htm