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Lake Wind Advisory 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 25, 2011, 2:11 AM EST for 17 counties in North Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at Feb 25, 2011, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2011, 2:11 AM EST (07:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2011, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2011, 4:41 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Rabun County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 711 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Feb 25, 1:09 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 1:09 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 3:12 PM EST, 10 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 312 PM EST THU FEB 24 2011 NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-252015- AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON- 312 PM EST THU FEB 24 2011 ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORY. IN ADDITION TO THE GENERALLY GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS ON FRIDAY...A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO CROSS THE MOUNTAINS STARTING AROUND DAYBREAK. THE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND STORMS COULD CHANNEL LOCALLY STRONGER WINDS TO THE GROUND...PRODUCING ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE FROM DAYBREAK THROUGH MID MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-501>510- SCZ001>014-019-252015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL- DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-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- 312 PM EST THU FEB 24 2011 ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORY. IN ADDITION TO THE GENERALLY GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE REGION ON FRIDAY...A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY ALSO CROSS THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING. THE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND STORMS COULD CHANNEL LOCALLY STRONGER WINDS TO THE GROUND...PRODUCING ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE DURING THE MORNING HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2:11 AM EST | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Macon, Swain | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 4:41 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in North 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.