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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 16, 20088 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Apr 16, 2008, 2:43 PM EDT for 8 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 17, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 2008, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 17, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 17, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 15, 7:08 PM EDT, 19 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 7:08 PM EDT, 19 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 2:43 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryGSPBuncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Davie, Henderson and 8 more18 hr
Apr 16, 5:27 AM EDTRed Flag WarningGSPElbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens15 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.