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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 29, 20089 counties in North Carolina

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.