Alert archive / North Carolina / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2008, 7:25 PM EST for 9 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2008, 7:25 PM EST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2008, 10:26 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KGSP 250025 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 725 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500 FEET... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL AFFECT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. NCZ033-048>052-058-059-062-250500- /O.EXP.KGSP.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-081225T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KGSP.WI.Y.0021.081225T0025Z-081225T0500Z/ AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWLAND...SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE... WAYNESVILLE...SYLVA...FRANKLIN 725 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SOUTHWEST WINDS AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN COUNTIES NEAR THE TENNESSEE BORDER...WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST TO AROUND 55 MPH THIS EVENING. THESE WINDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME TREE LIMBS TO FALL ALONG WITH SOME ISOLATED TREE BLOW DOWNS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ 07
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS72 KGSP 250326 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1026 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELED... .WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. NCZ033-048>052-058-059-062-250430- /O.CAN.KGSP.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081225T0500Z/ AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWLAND...SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE... WAYNESVILLE...SYLVA...FRANKLIN 1026 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. $$ 07
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.