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Lake Wind Advisory 34, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 27, 201116 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Dec 27, 2011, 3:29 AM EST for 16 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 27, 2011, 3:29 AM EST (08:29 UTC)
Expired
Dec 27, 2011, 6:00 PM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
All 30 counties

Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2011-12-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2011-12-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 27, 3:29 AM ESTWind AdvisoryGSPAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more27 hr
Dec 27, 4:07 AM ESTFreezing Rain AdvisoryGSPAvery, Burke4 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2011Every lake wind advisory in 2011

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.