Alert archive / North Carolina / Winter Storm Warnings in 2009
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this winter storm warning at Jan 7, 2009, 3:09 PM EST for 9 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 7, 2009, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 20 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
- Jan 7, 2009, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 7, 2009, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2009, 2:51 PM EST
- In force
- 20 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 20:13 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 7, 3:05 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 3:05 PM EST, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 7, 10:42 AM EST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1042 AM EST WED JAN 7 2009 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-053-056-057-059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-081545- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL- DAVIE-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS- UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS- GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 1042 AM EST WED JAN 7 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ033-048>052-058-081545- AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-GRAHAM- 1042 AM EST WED JAN 7 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 7, 9:43 AM EST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
943 AM EST WED JAN 07 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0730 PM FLASH FLOOD 2 N FRANKLIN 35.21N 83.38W
01/06/2009 MACON NC EMERGENCY MNGR
ARTHUR DRAKE ROAD FLOODED DUE TO LITTLE TN RIVER
OVERFLOWING BANKS.
&&
PTANNERLocal storm report, Jan 7, 11:28 AM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1128 AM EST WED JAN 07 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0400 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG GREENWOOD 34.19N 82.15W
01/07/2009 GREENWOOD SC NEWSPAPER
THE INDEX JOURNAL IN GREENWOOD RELAYED A REPORT OF A
COUPLE OF TREES DOWN IN GREENWOOD. EVENT HAPPENED AROUND
4 AM.
0412 AM NON-TSTM WND GST GREENWOOD 34.19N 82.15W
01/07/2009 M46 MPH GREENWOOD SC ASOS
SITE KGRD...GREENWOOD COUNTY AIRPORT.
&&
BSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 8:19 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 116 min |
| Jan 6, 9:12 PM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 6, 11:01 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Graham, Swain | 119 min |
| Jan 7, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Macon, Swain | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Avery | 119 min |
| Jan 7, 1:58 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rutherford | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:05 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 24 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:05 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 14 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:49 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Madison | 116 min |
| Jan 7, 3:16 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk and 2 more | 119 min |
| Jan 7, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:14 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 19 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:39 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:00 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 6:37 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 113 min |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2009Every winter storm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.