Alert archive / North Carolina / Frost Advisories in 2005
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this frost advisory at Oct 25, 2005, 3:17 AM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina; Anderson County, Cherokee County, South Carolina; Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia. It took effect at Oct 26, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2005, 3:17 AM EDT (07:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 26, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2005, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Oct 25, 2:36 AM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 2:36 AM EDT, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
236 AM EDT TUE OCT 25 2005
.SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...
UPPER LOW MOVES E ACROSS WV AND VA TODAY...THEN LIFTS NE TON AND
WED. VIGOROUS VORT LOBE CROSSING S APPALACHAIANS TODAY...EXPECTED TO
ENHANCE NW FLOW PRECIP ALONG TN LINE. MODEL SOUNDINGS VARY ON
MOISTURE CONTENT AND FREEZING LEVEL. WILL CARRY SNOW HIGHEST
ELEVATION NC MTS...MIX MID ELEVATIONS...AND RAIN BELOW. SNOW TOTALS
TODAY LESS THAN ONE INCH...WITH HIGH VALLEY FLOORS LESS THAN ONE
HALF INCH. WILL NOT ISSUE SNOW ADVISORY. WIND EXPECTED TO BE QUITE
GUSTY WITH 45 KNOTS AT 850 MB ANND PERSISTENT DOWNWARD VERTICAL
MOTION. WILL ISSUE WIND ADVISORY N NC MTS...AND LAKE WIND ADVISORY
REST OF NC MTS...AS WELL AS EASTERN PIEDMONT COUNTIES.
SNOW DIMINSHES AND WIND DECREASES TONIGHT AS LOW LEVEL FLOW WEAKENS.
EXPECT ANOTHER NIGHT OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES NC MTS TONIGHT...
DESPITE WIND OF MORE THAN 10 KNOTS. WIND DROPS OFF REST OF AREA
...SUPPORTING FROST ADVISORY ALL BUT S NC FOOTHILLS...AND SC/GA
FOOTHILLS...WHERE THERMAL BELT AND WEAK DOWNSLOPE EFFECTS WILL KEEP
TERMPERATURES IN UPPER 30S.
WED DRY AS NEXT VORT LOBE CHANNELLED OVER VA. WED NIGHT FEATURES YET
ANOTHER NIGHT OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES NC MTS...WITH FROST SUPPORTED
REST OF AREA IN EVEN LIGHTER WINDS THAN TONIGHT. WILL NOT ISSUE
FREEZE WATCH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS FREEZE TONIGHT SHOULD END GROWING
SEASON.
ANOTHER VORT LOBE DIVES INTO TN THU. MODELS VARY ON SOUTHWARD
EXTENSION OF MOISTURE. AT THIS TIME WILL INCREASE CLOUD COVER TO
PARTLY CLOUDY N TN LINE...LEAVING POPS JUST BELOW SLIGHT CHANCE.
ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES DOWN A BIT TODAY PER GUIDANCE...AND UP A BIT
WED IN BRIEFLY RISING HEIGHTS IN WAKE OF UPPER LOW. TEMPERATURES
COOL A BIT N TIER NC THU AS HEIGHTS FALL AGAIN WITH VORT LOBE DIVING
INTO MEAN TROUGH.
&&
.LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...
COOL HIGH WILL BE OUR DOMINATE WEATHER FEATURE INTO THE WEEKEND
KEEPING THE FCST DRY AND TEMPERATURES BELOW LATE OCTOBER NORMALS.
&&
.AVIATION...
STRONG CYCLONIC NW FLOW AROUND UPPER LOW WILL KEEP CLOUDS AND
MOISTURE RUNNING UP THE WEST SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE DAY.
KAVL SHOULD RETAIN A VFR CEILING THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD...
OCCASIONALLY DIPPING BELOW 3000 FEET THROUGH DAYBREAK. BY MID
MORNING...850MB MOISTURE ADVECTED EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD ALLOW
SOME CLOUDS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT WHICH COULD
RESULT IN AN OCCASIONAL VFR STRATOCU CEILING IN THE AFTERNOON...BUT
THAT WILL NOT BE INDICATED IN THE TAFS IN THIS ISSUANCE. STRONG AND
GUSTY NW WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT ALL TAF SITES UNTIL AT LEAST
SUNSET...WHEN THE BOUNDARY LAYER SHOULD START TO DECOUPLE.
&&
.GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR GAZ029 FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 6 PM
TUESDAY.
...FROST ADVISORY FOR GAZ026-028-029 FROM MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO 6
AM WEDNESDAY.
NC...FREEZE WARNING FOR NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065 UNTIL 6 AM
TUESDAY.
...FREEZE WARNING FOR NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065 FROM
MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO 6 AM WEDNESDAY.
...WIND ADVISORY FOR NCZ033-049-050 FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 6 PM
TUESDAY.
...FROST ADVISORY FOR NCZ034>037-054>057-068>072-082 FROM
MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO 6 AM WEDNESDAY.
...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR NCZ036-037-048-051>053-057>059-062>065-
071-072-082 FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 6 PM TUESDAY.
SC...FROST ADVISORY FOR SCZ008>014-019 FROM MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO 6
AM WEDNESDAY.
...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR SCZ009-011>014-019 FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO
6 PM TUESDAY.
&&
SHORT TERM...JAT
LONG TERM...JDL
AVIATION...PMHazardous weather outlook, Oct 24, 5:16 AM EDT, 22 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 516 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-250930- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 516 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED EARLY THIS MORNING...AND AGAIN TONIGHT...AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. THE SNOW SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF TUESDAY NIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FREEZE OUTLOOK FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN ADDITION... WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN MUCH OF THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. PATCHY FROST IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:17 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 6 more | 27 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:17 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 14 hr |
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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.