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A blast of cold air shattered numerous temperature records for late April in the Plains, South and East and was accompanied by late-spring snow from the Rockies to the interior Northeast.

This latest cold outbreak prompted frost and freeze alerts as far south as Texas and Alabama.

April 21 was the latest spring freeze on record in both Abilene, Texas, and Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

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Dozens of daily record lows were set during the cold snap, including Dallas-Fort Worth (37 degrees), Oklahoma City (29) and Indianapolis (26).

Temperatures plunged as low as 22 degrees below zero near Albany, Wyoming, and 9 below zero in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

(MAPS: 10-Day U.S. Forecast Highs/Lows)

Late Spring Snow

Accompanying this cold blast was a round of snow that in some areas has been one of the latest spring snowfalls on record.

While not the latest-in-season snow on record, accumulating snow in both Kansas City and Wichita, Kansas, on April 20, was the heaviest to occur so late in spring, there.

Up to 1.5 inches of snow was reported in northwest Arkansas Tuesday. Only a May 3, 2013, event produced snow later in spring in Fayetteville, Arkansas, than what fell on Tuesday.

Paducah, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana, both picked up their latest accumulating snowfall on record late on April 20, according to the National Weather Service.

And a two-day total of 1.8 inches was the heaviest snow so late in spring in Louisville, Kentucky.

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