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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Burlington, VT

June 12, 1996Windsor County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:29 PM EDT for Windsor County, Vermont. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 12, 1996, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Whole counties

County Windsor County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 12, 2:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 11:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Addison	62 min
Jun 12, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Windsor	61 min
Jun 12, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Chittenden, Washington	56 min
Jun 12, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Orleans	59 min
Jun 12, 5:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Franklin, Lamoille, Orleans	3 hr
Jun 12, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Caledonia	57 min
Jun 11, 10:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Essex	2 hr
Jun 12, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BTV	Clinton	58 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1996 Every 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.