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Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freezing rain advisory at Feb 14, 2016, 2:52 PM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 15, 2016, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2016, 2:52 PM EST (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2016, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2016, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 2609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 Feb 14, 2:38 PM EST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 2:38 PM EST, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 4:30 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell and 1 more | 44 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:52 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 14 more | 33 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in South Carolina, 2016Freezing Rain Advisories in North Carolina, 2016Freezing Rain Advisories in Georgia, 2016Every freezing rain advisory in 2016
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.