Alert archive / North Carolina / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this frost advisory at Nov 8, 2012, 2:27 PM EST for Anderson County, South Carolina; 5 counties in North Carolina; Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia. It took effect at Nov 9, 2012, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 2012, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 9, 2012, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2012, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA, Burke County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Anderson County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 2422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
109 WWUS72 KGSP 081927 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 227 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED TONIGHT... .LIGHT WINDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES WILL PROMOTE FROST DEVELOPMENT IN PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPSTATE SC AND NORTHEAST GA. GAZ026-028-SCZ004-010-091400- /O.NEW.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.121109T0500Z-121109T1400Z/ FRANKLIN-HART-GREATER OCONEE-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTWELL...ANDERSON 227 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FRANKLIN AND HART COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTH 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ 07
4 follow-up statements
133 WWUS72 KGSP 082308 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED TONIGHT... .LIGHT WINDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES WILL PROMOTE FROST DEVELOPMENT IN PORTIONS OF THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NCZ068-504-506-508-510-SCZ005>007-091400- /O.EXA.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.121109T0500Z-121109T1400Z/ CLEVELAND-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD- EASTERN POLK-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHELBY...GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG 608 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FRANKLIN AND HART COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTH 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ GAZ026-028-SCZ004-010-091400- /O.CON.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.121109T0500Z-121109T1400Z/ FRANKLIN-HART-GREATER OCONEE-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTWELL...ANDERSON 608 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FRANKLIN AND HART COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
665 WWUS72 KGSP 082316 CCA NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 613 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED TONIGHT... .LIGHT WINDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES WILL PROMOTE FROST DEVELOPMENT IN PORTIONS OF THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NCZ068-504-506-508-510-SCZ005>007-091400- /O.COR.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.121109T0500Z-121109T1400Z/ CLEVELAND-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD- EASTERN POLK-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHELBY...GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG 613 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...MOST OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS...AND GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG AND SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTH 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ GAZ026-028-SCZ004-010-091400- /O.CON.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.121109T0500Z-121109T1400Z/ FRANKLIN-HART-GREATER OCONEE-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTWELL...ANDERSON 613 PM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM EST FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FRANKLIN AND HART COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
316 WWUS72 KGSP 090730 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 AM EST FRI NOV 9 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED THROUGH THIS MORNING... .LIGHT WINDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES WILL PROMOTE FROST DEVELOPMENT IN PORTIONS OF THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. GAZ026-028-NCZ068-504-506-508-510-SCZ004>007-010-091400- /O.CON.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-121109T1400Z/ FRANKLIN-HART-CLEVELAND-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL- GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTWELL...SHELBY...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...ANDERSON 230 AM EST FRI NOV 9 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FRANKLIN AND HART COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 MPH OR LESS. * IMPACTS...FROST WILL DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
210 WWUS72 KGSP 091355 NPWGSP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 855 AM EST FRI NOV 9 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY EXPIRES AT 9 AM EST FRIDAY... GAZ026-028-NCZ068-504-506-508-510-SCZ004>007-010-091500- /O.EXP.KGSP.FR.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-121109T1400Z/ FRANKLIN-HART-CLEVELAND-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL- GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTWELL...SHELBY...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...ANDERSON 855 AM EST FRI NOV 9 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE AIR WILL CONTINUE TO WARM THIS MORNING BRINGING AN END TO THE FROST THAT FORMED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. $$ LGL
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.