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Freeze Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 30, 20204 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this freeze warning at Oct 30, 2020, 2:46 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 31, 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: Oct 30, 2020, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 31, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 31, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 30, 1:51 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 1:51 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 8:04 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 4 more	16 hr
Oct 29, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	34 min
Oct 29, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	32 min
Oct 29, 8:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	48 min
Oct 29, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	41 min
Oct 29, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan	46 min
Oct 29, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	42 min
Oct 29, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	53 min
Oct 30, 2:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	3 hr
Oct 30, 5:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	12 hr
Oct 30, 10:12 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	GSP	Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey	5 hr
Oct 30, 2:46 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 14 more	19 hr
Oct 29, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	30 min
Oct 29, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens, Union	40 min
Oct 29, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	39 min
Oct 29, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester, York	44 min

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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.