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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this winter storm warning at Feb 12, 2010, 4:19 AM EST for 6 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 12, 2010, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 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
- Feb 12, 2010, 4:19 AM EST (09:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2010, 3:40 AM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Cabarrus County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Union 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), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 2538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 Feb 12, 3:48 AM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 3:48 AM EST, 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 12, 4:19 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 11, 9:40 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens | 7 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in South Carolina, 2010Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Winter Storm Warnings in Georgia, 2010Every winter storm warning in 2010
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.