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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 11, 20055 counties in North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Nov 11, 2005, 5:18 AM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 2005, 5:18 AM EST (10:18 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 2005, 8:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Elbert County, GA, Cabarrus County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2005-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2005-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 3:18 AM ESTFrost AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 1 more29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2005Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2005Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every freeze warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.