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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT

April 23, 1996Chittenden County, Lamoille County, Washington County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1996, 5:46 PM EDT for Chittenden County, Lamoille County, Washington County, Vermont. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1996, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chittenden County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Washington County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Apr 23, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:10 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
509 PM EDT TUE APR 23 1996

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ESSEX COUNTY
NEW YORK...
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR
ADDISON...WASHINGTON AND ORANGE COUNTIES SOUTHWARD IN VERMONT...

THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VERMONT THIS AFTERNOON
WITH ONE STORM PRODUCING DIME-SIZED HAIL IN LUDLOW.  A FEW OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN NEW YORK WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN VERMONT
THROUGH THIS EVENING.  RAIN WILL BE OCCASIONALLY HEAVY...AND THE STORMS
MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL.

A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND
NORTHERN NEW YORK.  RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AND WITH RIVERS
ALREADY AT OR NEAR BANKFULL...THE THREAT OF FLOODING IS HIGH.

IF YOU LIVE NEAR A RIVER...KEEP AN EYE ON THE WATER LEVEL AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON.

MCGILL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVWindsor48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.