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Snow Advisory 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this snow advisory at Feb 17, 2007, 2:38 AM EST for 7 counties in North Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at Feb 17, 2007, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2007, 2:38 AM EST (07:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2007, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2007, 10:03 AM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Rabun County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 2682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow 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 snow advisory went out at Feb 17, 2:10 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 2:10 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 16, 3:34 PM EST, 11 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 334 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 GAZ010-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509-172045- RABUN-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-BURKE MOUNTAINS-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-POLK MOUNTAINS- 334 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SNOW SHOWER CHANCES WILL BE ON THE INCREASE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. COLD NORTHWEST FLOW SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WILL RESULT IN SNOW SHOWER CHANCES CONTINUING FOR THE TENNESSEE BORDER COUNTIES. LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS HIGHER ELEVATIONS...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE TENNESSEE LINE. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF THE AREA. FOR FURTHER DETAILS... PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...WSWGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GAZ017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506- 508-510-SCZ001>014-019-172045- HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE- CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS- UNION NC-GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL- GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 334 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2:38 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | GSP | Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:38 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood, McDowell and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:18 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 28 hr |
Nearby
Snow Advisories in North Carolina, 2007Snow Advisories in Georgia, 2007Every snow 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.