Actually, no it wasn't. I checked twitter when the alert came on in game to see why it was being restarted. time stamp had it only posted a few minutes before in game warning.
I wasn't in-game, but according to the accounts I had from leaguemates that were, that squares up with the timeline. Thanks for confirming. Once the decision was made and announced, it was about ten minutes later the servers went down. I don't know where that hour-long idea came from.
