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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 13, 200612 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this high wind watch at Jan 13, 2006, 3:15 AM EST for 12 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at Jan 14, 2006, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2006, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 14, 2006, 6:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 13, 2006, 12:56 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 341 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 12, 9:42 PM EST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 9:42 PM EST, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:54 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	GSP	Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more	9 hr
Jan 13, 12:51 PM EST	Heavy Snow Warning	GSP	Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more	26 hr
Jan 13, 12:51 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	GSP	Buncombe, Jackson, Macon	5 hr
Jan 13, 12:56 PM EST	High Wind Watch	GSP	Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 5 more	15 hr
Jan 13, 12:56 PM EST	High Wind Warning	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Catawba, Cleveland, Graham and 10 more	41 hr
Jan 13, 5:54 PM EST	Snow Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 4 more	28 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2006 High Wind Watches in Georgia, 2006 High Wind Watches in South Carolina, 2006 Every high wind watch in 2006

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.