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Freezing Rain Advisory 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freezing rain advisory at Mar 26, 2011, 3:18 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 27, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2011, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2011, 8:32 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 369 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
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Mar 26, 2:57 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 2:57 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
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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.