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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 16, 20208 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Oct 16, 2020, 11:11 AM EDT for 8 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 17, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 16, 2020, 11:11 AM EDT (15:11 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 16, 11:03 AM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 11:03 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 3:44 AM EDTFreeze WatchGSPAvery, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Mitchell and 2 more7 hr
Oct 16, 4:36 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryGSPBurke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk and 1 more4 hr
Oct 16, 11:11 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryGSPAlexander, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Davie and 8 more23 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.