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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Burlington, VT

August 13, 1990Rutland County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1990, 7:22 PM EDT for Rutland County, Vermont. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1990, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1990, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Rutland County, VT

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 13, 7:50 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Rutland, VT

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1990-08-13Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1990-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison, Rutland66 min
Aug 13, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVWashington66 min
Aug 13, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOrange56 min
Aug 13, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCaledonia68 min
Aug 13, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVEssex56 min
Aug 13, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVBennington68 min
Aug 13, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVMadison65 min
Aug 13, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOneida58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1990Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.