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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 14, 2024Avery County, Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this winter storm warning at Jan 14, 2024, 3:41 AM EST for Avery County, Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 15, 2024, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 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
Jan 14, 2024, 3:41 AM EST (08:41 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 15, 2024, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 16, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Avery County, NC, Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2024-01-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2024-01-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -122 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 3:41 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryGSPAvery, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell and 1 more51 hr

Nearby

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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.