Alert archive / South Carolina / Frost Advisories in 2007
Frost Advisory 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this frost advisory at Oct 29, 2007, 3:31 AM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Oct 30, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
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
Counties Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 30 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 249 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 frost 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 frost advisory 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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:31 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | GSP | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 15 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:14 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 21 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in South Carolina, 2007Frost Advisories in North Carolina, 2007Frost Advisories in Georgia, 2007Every frost advisory 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.