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Heavy Snow Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this heavy snow warning at Feb 4, 2006, 2:55 AM EST for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 4, 2006, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 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
- Feb 4, 2006, 2:55 AM EST (07:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 4, 2006, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2006, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 353 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heavy snow warning 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 heavy snow warning went out at Feb 4, 2:40 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 2:40 AM EST, 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 303 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-041030- 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- 303 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AFTER LINGERING RAIN SHOWERS DIMINISH SATURDAY MORNING...AN INCREASING CHANCE FOR MOUNTAIN SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE SEEN SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ACCUMULATING SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS WHERE A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. A PERIOD OF WINDY CONDITIONS IS LIKELY ALL ACROSS THE REGION SATURDAY JUST OUT AHEAD OF...AND IN THE WAKE OF A SHARP COLD FRONT. GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL CROSS THE REGION ON MONDAY...PERHAPS BRINGING WITH IT A PERIOD OF RAIN OR SNOW. ADDITIONAL SNOW SHOWERS... MAINLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...MAY BE SEEN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED...BUT SNOWFALL REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGED. CSH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 4, 2:39 AM EST, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 2:55 AM EST | Snow Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Swain | 27 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:02 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland and 17 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 18 min |
| Feb 4, 2:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 58 min |
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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.