Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 1992, 1:34 PM EST for Windham County, Windsor County, Vermont. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 1992, 1:34 PM EST (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 1992, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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, Mar 11, 11:05 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-112000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1105 AM EST WED MAR 11 1992 ...A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN VERMONT... FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTHWARD. ...A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES RUTLAND...WINDSOR... WINDHAM AND BENNINGTON COUNTIES. AT 1100 AM...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS FALLING AS FAR EAST AS CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK. THIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MUCH COLDER AIR THAT WAS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE AREA. THIS COLDER WILL SLOWLY MOVE INTO ALL OF VERMONT. ANY RAIN FALLING ACROSS VERMONT WILL CHANGE TO A PERIOD OF SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN WHEN THE TEMPERATURE DROPS TO AROUND FREEZING. THIS MAY CAUSE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION...AND DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL CHANGE TO SNOW LATER THIS AFTERNOON. 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL BY DARK. SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH GREATER THAN 6 INCHES ACCUMULATION LIKELY IN MOST AREAS. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS MAY CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. TRAVELERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT HIGHWAYS WILL BECOME VERY ICY THIS AFTERNOON WHEN THE COLD ARRIVES. BE PREPARED FOR RAPID WEATHER CHANGES THIS AFTERNOON AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH TRAVEL DESTINATIONS. THE NEXT STATEMENT ON THIS LATE WINTER WEATHER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 PM. REYRNOLDS
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 12:33 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
VTZALL-NYZ011-112000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1230 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 ...A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN VERMONT... FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTHWARD. ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES RUTLAND...WINDSOR... WINDHAM AND BENNINGTON COUNTIES. AT 1215 PM...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS FALLING AS FAR EAST AS CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK. THIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MUCH COLDER AIR THAT WAS MOVING ACROSS NEW YORK. THIS COLDER WILL SLOWLY MOVE INTO ALL OF VERMONT THIS AFTERNOON. ANY RAIN FALLING ACROSS VERMONT WILL CHANGE TO A PERIOD OF SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN WHEN THE TEMPERATURE DROPS TO AROUND FREEZING. THIS MAY CAUSE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION...AND DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL CHANGE TO SNOW LATER THIS AFTERNOON. 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL BY DARK. SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 INCHES OR MORE ARE LIKELY FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTH. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS MAY CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. TRAVELERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT HIGHWAYS WILL BECOME VERY ICY THIS AFTERNOON WHEN THE COLD ARRIVES. BE PREPARED FOR RAPID WEATHER CHANGES THIS AFTERNOON AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH TRAVEL DESTINATIONS. THE NEXT STATEMENT ON THIS LATE WINTER WEATH@ER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 PM. HOGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 8:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:57 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Orange | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windsor | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windham | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Orange | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Lamoille | 4 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:24 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Chittenden, Lamoille | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:32 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Orleans | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windham, Windsor | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Orange, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Lamoille, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Chittenden | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex | 7 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 5 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 6 hr |
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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.