Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Feb 23, 1990, 4:39 PM EST for Windsor County, Vermont. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1990, 4:39 PM EST (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1990, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Windsor County, VT
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBTV 232142
FFWBTV
VTC027-240100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
439 PM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST VERMONT
...NORTHEAST WINDSOR
THE WHITE RIVER NEAR HARTFORD HAS A ICE JAM THAT IS THREATENING A BRIDGE
ON ROUTE 14. THE ICE JAM HAS PUT SERIOUS STRESS ON THE BRIDGE. WATER
WAS RISING RAPIDLY BEHID THE ICE JAM.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
$$
END...GRADYWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 11:15 AM EST, 5 hours 24 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1115 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990 A WINTER STORM WATCH IS CONTINUED FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. AFTER THE MILD WEATHER OF THE PAST FEW DAYS...WINTER CONDITIONS HAVE RETURNED TO VERMONT. THIS AFTERNOON WE CAN EXPECT SOME LIGHT SNOW... WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT SNOW POSSIBLE TONIGHT. A STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OFF NEW JERSEY TONIGHT AND STRENGTHEN AS IS IT MOVES NORTHEAST. COLD AIR WILL SPILL INTO NEW ENGLAND RESULTING IN SNOW TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. AT THE PRESENT TIME... THIS STORM HAS THE PONTENTIAL FOR 6 INCHES OR MORE OVERNIGHT AND SATURDAY. SNOW AMOUNTS WILL DEPEND ON THE EXACT TRACK OF THE STORM. IF YOU PLAN TO TRAVEL TONIGHT OR SATURDAY...LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ...LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS OR WARNINGS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WIL BE ISSURED BY 4 PM. HOGAN
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:40 PM EST, 59 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 340 PM EST FRI FEB 23 1990 THE WINTER STORM WATCH FOR VERMONT AND NORTHEAST NEW YORK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SNOW HAS BEGUN TO FALL OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHERN VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF THE STATE BY LATER THIS EVENING. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE LIKELY IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ELSEWHERE IN VERMONT. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF EARLY SATURDAY BEFORE MORE SNOW ENTERS THE STATE ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. ALONG WITH THE SNOW...STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL USHER IN MUCH COLDER AIR ON SUNDAY. END...AS FORECASTS OR WARNINGS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WIL BE ISSUED BY 4 PM. HOGAN
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:41 PM EST, 58 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 340 PM EST FRI FEB 23 1990 THE WINTER STORM WATCH FOR VERMONT AND NORTHEAST NEW YORK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SNOW HAS BEGUN TO FALL OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHERN VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF THE STATE BY LATER THIS EVENING. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE LIKELY IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ELSEWHERE IN VERMONT. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF EARLY SATURDAY BEFORE MORE SNOW ENTERS THE STATE ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. ALONG WITH THE SNOW...STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL USHER IN MUCH COLDER AIR ON SUNDAY. END...AS
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.