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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 7, 200617 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 7, 2006, 3:31 AM EST for 17 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 7, 2006, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 7, 2006, 3:31 AM EST (08:31 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 7, 2006, 6:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 8, 2006, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 326 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: 1893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 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 wind chill 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 7, 3:00 AM EST, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 3:00 AM EST, 31 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
Dec 7, 3:31 AM EST	Snow Advisory	GSP	Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey	19 hr
Dec 7, 3:35 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more	32 hr
Dec 7, 10:27 AM EST	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more	12 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in North Carolina, 2006 Every wind chill advisory 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.