Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 108, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Clinton County, New York. 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 29, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 29, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 230 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 SEVERE CELLS ACROSS QUEBEC (SPLITTING CELLS). PROFILES SHOW CAPPED UNTIL THIS EVENING ACROSS FORECAST AREA. STILL EXPECT ACTIVITY TO GET CRANKING AND THE LONGER IT WAITS...THE GREATER THE INSTABILITY GETS. SHORT WAVE APPROACHING NORTH FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. THIS COULD ENHANCE ACTIVITY ALONG CANADIAN BORDER. ACTIVITY COULD EXTEND WELL INTO NIGHT TIME HOURS AS ENVIRONMENT IS RIPE FOR SUPERCELLS. DEWPOINTS OF LOW AND MID 60S AND PRECIPITABLE WATERS OF 1 1/2 INCHES WILL ENSURE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. TROUGH TO COME THROUGH MID MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON TUESDAY WITH COLD FRONT TUESDAY EVENING. H5 TROUGH AND VORTICITY MAXIMA TO COME THROUGH ON WEDNESDAY. LOOKS AS THOUGH THREAT FOR PRECIPITATION EACH PERIOD. FORECAST SUGGESTIONS... TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. LOW IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH. TUESDAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGH IN THE LOW AND MID 80S. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH. TUESDAY NIGHT...EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY THEN PARTLY CLOUDY OVERNIGHT. LOW AROUND 60. WEDNESDAY...A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS WITH A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH 70 TO 75. DIGIORGI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Grand Isle | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden, Franklin | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Lamoille | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Washington | 74 min |
| Jun 29, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 94 min |
| Jun 29, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin | 89 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.