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Air Stagnation Advisory 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 13, 20077 counties in North Carolina; Chester County, York County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this air stagnation advisory at Aug 13, 2007, 3:41 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina; Chester County, York County, South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 14, 2007, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 2007, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 14, 2007, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 14, 2007, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Union County, NC, Chester County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2007-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2007-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.