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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT

August 6, 1995Addison County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 1995, 12:53 AM EDT for Addison County, Vermont. It was in force for 6 hr.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1995, 12:53 AM EDT (04:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1995, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Addison County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 296 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBTV 060456
FFWBTV
VTC001-061100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
1253 AM EDT SUN AUG 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL VERMONT
 
   ...ADDISON COUNTY
 
THE NEW HAVEN RIVER AT BRISTOL VERMONT HAS BEEN RISING STEADILY AND WAS
NEAR BANKFULL AT 1245 AM. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED DURING THE
EARLY MORNING COMBINED WITH RUNOFF FROM THE MOUNTAINS...FLOODING IS
LIKELY.  AREAS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING WILL BE ALONG THE WESTERN
SLOPES OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS.
 
MINOR ROAD FLOODING WAS ALREADY OCCURRING ON ROUTE 116 BETWEEN BRISTOL
AND MIDDLEBURY.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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.
 
CADIMA

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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.