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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this heat advisory at Aug 7, 2007, 3:33 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina; Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It took effect at Aug 8, 2007, 4:06 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2007, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2007, 4:06 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA, Cabarrus County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:33 PM EDT | Air Stagnation Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 2 more | 29 hr |
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.