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Winter Weather Advisory 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 29, 2014, 3:36 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 29, 2014, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2014, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2014, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2014, 9:51 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Mar 29, 3:00 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:00 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 1:14 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:17 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, Henderson and 8 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:17 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 14 more | 41 hr |
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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.