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Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 26, 2012, 8:04 AM EST for Avery County, Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 26, 2012, 8:04 AM EST (13:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:05 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 673 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1147 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 Dec 26, 7:03 AM EST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 7:03 AM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
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Local storm report, Dec 26, 6:23 AM EST, 1 hour 41 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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| Dec 25, 10:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania | 14 hr |
| Dec 26, 4:11 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GSP | Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more | 29 hr |
| Dec 26, 6:04 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Dec 26, 7:59 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 23 hr |
| Dec 26, 8:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 3 hr |
| Dec 26, 8:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 54 min |
| Dec 26, 9:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 44 min |
| Dec 26, 2:22 PM EST | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, Henderson and 6 more | 23 hr |
| Dec 26, 2:22 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, McDowell and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Dec 26, 5:50 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Dec 26, 8:58 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union, York | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.