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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this high wind watch at Oct 26, 2015, 2:54 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 27, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2015, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 27, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2015, 3:55 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Avery County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2015Every high wind watch in 2015
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.