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