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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this high wind watch at Dec 29, 2008, 3:17 PM EST for 9 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 30, 2008, 3:11 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2008, 3:17 PM EST (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2008, 3:11 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2008, 2:46 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- 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, Rutherford County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 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 29, 2:45 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 2:45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.