Some vegetation was damaged by this near/record cold freeze at 23-30.
Freeze duration was key to adding extra damage.
Duration varied from 5-9 hours at or below 32 for the area.
Duration at WLFI site was 1 a.m. to 8:20 a.m.
It was the longest in the far northwest with 10 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. duration at or below 32 degrees.
The West Lafayette record low was clobbered by 5 degrees. We hit 25 at the Ag Farm, beating the record low of 30 set in 1947.
Lows:
23 Morocco;
Concord;
Beard
24 2 SW Rossville
25 Monticello-White County Airport;
Crawfordsville Municipal Airport;
Galveston Airport;
West Lafayette-Purdue Ag Farm;
5 W Delphi;
Stockwell;
3 E Attica
2 SE Demotte;
26 Grissom Air Reserve Base;
Kokomo Municipal Airport;
Flora Municipal Airport;
WLFI Ob Site
5 NE Winamac;
Lake Village;
Round Grove
27 Frankfort Municipal Airport;
Logansport-Cass County Airport;
Rensselaer-Jasper County Airport;
8 S Lafayette (Purdue Throckmorton Farm);
3 E Fowler;
3 SE Linden;
2 N Rensselaer;
2 W Rochester;
6 E Michigantown
28 Purdue University Airport
29 Peru Municipal Airport;
Kentland Municipal Airport;
3 SE Covington
30 Rochester-Fulton County Airport;
2 W Rochester;
Athens