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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this high wind watch at Dec 1, 2007, 2:38 PM EST for 10 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 3, 2007, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 1, 2007, 2:38 PM EST (19:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 3, 2007, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2007, 3:02 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, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 1, 2:06 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 2:06 PM EST, 32 minutes before
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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.