Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1994, 2:20 PM EDT for Essex County, Vermont. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1994, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1994, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Essex County, VT
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTV 261823 RRA SVRBTV VTC017-005-009-261915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 220 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL VERMONT ...ORANGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST VERMONT ...SOUTHERN CALEDONIA COUNTY...ESSEX COUNTY AT 220 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ST. JOHNSBURY IN SOUTHERN CALEDONIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR VICTORY AND GRANBY IN ESSEX COUNTY THROUGH 320 PM. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS FORMING NEAR WEST CORINTH IN ORANGE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH WAITS RIVER BY 240 PM AND TO BOLTONVILLE BY 3 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE AND CAN NOT FIND REFUGE IN A STURDY INDOOR SHELTER...CROUCH DOWN IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. STAY AWAY FROM TREES...HILL TOPS...WIRE FENCES AND METAL OBJECTS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 26, 9:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON, VT 948 AM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 . 25 / 2100 EDT / TSTM WND / / VTZ011 / WALLINGFORD / RUTLAND / VT / TREES DOWN ON CHURCH STREET IN WALLINGFORD. SEVERAL REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES. REPORT FROM STATE POLICE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY. END DIGIORGI
Local storm report, Jul 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON, VT 948 AM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 . 25 / 2100 EDT / TSTM WND / / VTZ011 / WALLINGFORD / RUTLAND / VT / TREES DOWN ON CHURCH STREET IN WALLINGFORD. SEVERAL REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES. REPORT FROM STATE POLICE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY. END DIGIORGI
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
VTZ001>012-NYZ026>031-034-035-261920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 116 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK... AT 115 PM...RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING JUST TO THE SOUTH OF LAKE PLACID NEW YORK. THIS STORM WILL REACH UPPER JAY...KEENE AND ELIZABETHTOWN BY 145 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR SPRINGFIELD VERMONT AND THESE WILL AFFECT THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY IN WINDSOR COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM. A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. AS THE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY THEY MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DIGIORGI
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:58 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
VTZ001-002-005-NYZ028-035-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THROUGH 8 PM... ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND WILL MOVE ACROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN THROUGH 230 PM... A THUNDERSTORM NEAR PORT KENT NEW YORK WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN NEAR SOUTH HERO TO JUST SOUTH OF ST. ALBANS BY 215 PM AND TO ENOSBURG FALLS BY 230 PM. IF YOU ARE ON THE LAKE SEEK SAFE HARBOR NOW. ON THE SHORE...HEAD FOR A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. SISSON
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:00 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
VTZ001-002-005-NYZ028-035-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THROUGH 8 PM... ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND WILL MOVE ACROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN THROUGH 230 PM... A THUNDERSTORM NEAR PORT KENT NEW YORK WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN NEAR SOUTH HERO TO JUST SOUTH OF ST. ALBANS BY 215 PM AND TO ENOSBURG FALLS BY 230 PM. IF YOU ARE ON THE LAKE SEEK SAFE HARBOR NOW. ON THE SHORE...HEAD FOR A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. SISSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Orange | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Windsor | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.