Alert archive / North Carolina / Freeze Warnings in 2020
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at May 8, 2020, 4:12 AM EDT for 17 counties in North Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at May 9, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2020, 4:12 AM EDT (08:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 9, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 9, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Rabun County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 2438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:49 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 6 more | 19 hr |
| May 8, 2:49 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Davie and 12 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2020Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020
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.