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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Burlington, VT

August 3, 1997Essex County, Franklin County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1997, 1:06 AM EDT for Essex County, Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 69 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
Aug 3, 1997, 1:06 AM EDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1997, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1997-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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 Aug 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
905 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1997

KCXX VRY ACTIVE ATTM...ALTHOUGH TREND IS WEAKENING ACTVTY.

CRNT ACTVTY ALG CAN/US BDR APPRS TO BE COLD FRONT AND ACTVTY SHLD
CONT ALG FRNT UNTIL IT PASSES.

NO REAL TIME TO PLAY WITH UPDATE...WUD FVR MNTN OF TSTM FOR CHAMPL
VLY/NRN VT TIL MIDNIGHT WITH PSBL SHOWERS THEREAFTER.

STL A THREAT OF SHOWERS IN ST.LWRNC/ADRNDKS BASED ON -SHRA ACTVTY
UPSTREAM TOWARD MONTREAL.

GOT TO GO...BYE

SLW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence60 min
Aug 3, 12:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence62 min
Aug 3, 1:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVEssex, Franklin69 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.