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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 8, 200710 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this high wind watch at Jan 8, 2007, 3:05 PM EST for 10 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 9, 2007, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 8, 2007, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 9, 2007, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 9, 2007, 2:23 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -42 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 8, 2:52 PM EST, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 2:52 PM EST, 13 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
Jan 8, 8:10 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more	7 hr
Jan 7, 10:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	38 min
Jan 7, 9:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	25 min

Nearby

High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2007 Every high wind watch 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.