Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 1992, 3:32 PM EST for Caledonia County, Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 1992, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 1992, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caledonia County, VT, Orleans County, VT
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KPWM), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 112033 FFWBTV VTC019-005-112330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 332 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT ...ORLEANS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST VERMONT ...CALEDONIA COUNTY AN ICE JAM HAS FORMED ALONG THE BLACK RIVER NEAR IRASBURG IN ORLEANS COUNTY. THIS IS NEAR RIVER ROAD. FLOODING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS JAM...SO BE PREPARED TO MOVE AWAY QUICKLY FROM ANY RISING WATER. IN CALEDONIA COUNTY...AN ICE JAM WAS ON THE MOOSE RIVER...JUST EAST OF ST JOHNSBURY. IF YOU LIVE ALONG THIS RIVER...KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. ANY OF THE RIVERS AND STREAMS IN CALEDONIA AND OELEANS COUNTIES ARE SUSCEPTABLE TO ICE JAM FLOODING. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF THE WATER RISES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 6THE 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. YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HOGAN
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, 4 hours 27 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, 2 hours 59 minutes 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
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 2:55 PM EST, 37 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WINTER STORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 300 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 ...A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR NORTHERN VERMONT...FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTHWARD. ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT FOR TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES RUTLAND...WINDSOR...BENNINGTON AND WINDHAM COUNTIES. AT 300 PM...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS FALLING ACROSS MUCH OF CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK. THIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MUCH COLDER AIR SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS NEW YORK. THIS COLDER WILL MOVE INTO ALL OF VERMONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 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 MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL CHANGE TO SNOW LATER THIS EVENING...WITH SNOW CONTINUING OVERNIGHT. ACCUMULATIONS TONIGHT WILL BE 3 TO 5 INCHES IN NORTHERN VERMONT AND CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK...LESS IN SOUTHERN VERMONT. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 8 INCHES ARE LIKELY FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTH ACROSS VERMONT AND CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW TONIGHT. TRAVELERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT HIGHWAYS WILL BECOME VERY ICY WHEN THE COLD AIR ARRIVES. BE PREPARED FOR RAPID WEATHER CHANGES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH TRAVEL DESTINATIONS. THE NEXT STATEMENT ON THIS LATE WINTER WEATHER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 600 PM. HOGAN/REYNOLDS
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, 1:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windham, Windsor | 4 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, 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.