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Snow Advisory 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this snow advisory at Jan 18, 2006, 5:02 AM EST for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2006, 5:02 AM EST (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2006, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 10:02 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 675 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow 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 snow advisory went out at Jan 18, 2:45 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 2:45 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 6:12 AM EST, 22 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 612 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-172300- 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- 612 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2006 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 GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY SHOWERS AND PERHAPS SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP AND WIND ADVISORY...NPW...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 3:05 AM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 12:12 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:11 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 5 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.