Alert archive / North Carolina / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this snow advisory at Jan 18, 2008, 3:40 PM EST for 28 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 19, 2008, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2008, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2008, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2008, 6:05 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
All 42 counties
Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 4:21 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 18, 5:21 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Snow Advisories in North Carolina, 2008Snow Advisories in South Carolina, 2008Snow Advisories in Georgia, 2008Every snow advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.