Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 9:39 PM EDT for Addison County, Vermont. It was in force for 51 min. 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, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Addison County, VT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 745 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996 AGAIN...ANOTHER BUSY AFTN WITH PULSE SEVERE AND SOME FLASH FLOODING. MUCH OF ACTVTY HAS ABATED IN OUR CWA...ALTHOUGH WE/LL HAVE TO WATCH THE MOHAWK VLY ACTVTY AS IT MOVES TOWARD ESSEX CTY NY THAT WITNESSED (GROUND TRUTH) 4-5 INCHES OF RAIN AND SAW SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS. ANY CHGS TO FCST WUD BE BASED ON RDR TRENDS AT THE TIME...BUT WUD SUPPORT KNOCKING DOWN A CATEGORY TO CHC/SCT POPS FOR CWA. KRMX 88D CONT OTS SINCE 5/12/96...CONTINUOUS DIAL TO KENX. DIALING TWO RDRS TO COVER CWA IS CRAZY...THANK GOODNESS KCXX DOME WAS HOISTED TODAY. SLW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windsor | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Windsor | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Windsor | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Addison, Rutland | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Rutland | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Essex | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1996Every severe thunderstorm 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.