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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 9, 202528 counties in North Carolina; 12 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this winter storm warning at Jan 9, 2025, 2:13 PM EST for 28 counties in North Carolina; 12 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 10, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 29 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 9, 2025, 2:13 PM EST (19:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 10, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 11, 2025, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

All 46 counties

Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 298 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: 2302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 9, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025 Winter Storm Warnings in South Carolina, 2025 Winter Storm Warnings in Georgia, 2025 Every winter storm warning in 2025

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.