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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Burlington, VT

April 17, 1994Orleans County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 1994, 6:01 AM EDT for Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 1994, 6:01 AM EDT (10:01 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Orleans County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1994-04-17Temperature 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1994-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -174 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 3:56 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVRutland10 hr
Apr 17, 4:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVCaledonia9 hr
Apr 17, 6:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVChittenden, Franklin, Lamoille8 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.