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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 21, 2009Avery County, Mitchell County, Yancey County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Apr 21, 2009, 10:12 PM EDT for Avery County, Mitchell County, Yancey County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 22, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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 21, 2009, 10:12 PM EDT (02:12 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 22, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 22, 2009, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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 21, 10:08 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 10:08 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 10:01 AM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 9 more	8 hr
Apr 22, 10:16 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	GSP	Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Rowan	10 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2009 Every freeze warning in 2009

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.