Alert archive / North Carolina / Freeze Warnings in 2007
Freeze Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Oct 29, 2007, 3:31 AM EDT for 21 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at Oct 30, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Oct 29, 2007, 3:31 AM EDT (07:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2007, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
All 23 counties
Rabun County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Cherokee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 29, 2:54 AM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 2:54 AM EDT, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:31 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg, Polk, Union | 30 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:14 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 21 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2007Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2007Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2007Every freeze warning in 2007
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.