Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 1998, 3:23 PM EST for Addison County, Rutland County, Vermont. It was in force for 12 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
- Mar 31, 1998, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1998, 3:30 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Addison County, VT, Rutland County, VT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 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 Mar 31, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 140 PM EST TUE MAR 31 1998 FLOODING CONTS ACRS MUCH OF FA. WITH PCPN XPCTD TMRW FFA WL RMN IN EFFECT. LOW IN MIDWEST WL CONT TO FILL AND DRIFT TO NE NXT 48 HRS. FNTL BNDRY WL RMN ACRS NRN ZNS AND ACT AS A FOCUS FOR CNVCTN LTR TDY INTO WED. ETA/NGM SHW .50-1.00 INCH RAIN COMING IN MAINLY DURING WED. THIS WL ONLY EXACERBATE THE FLOODING PRBLMS. CD/OCCLD FNT WL MV THRU FA AFT 00Z THU. BY 12Z THU UPR LVL LO WL STL BE OVR GRT LKS SO PCPN LKLY TO CONT DURING THU. SHUD PRBLY XTND FFA INTO THU. FWC TEMPS LOOK OK TNT THRU WED NGT. TEMPS ON THU SHUD HOLD STDY OR FALL SLWLY. MCGILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Essex | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Franklin, Lamoille, Orleans | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Rutland | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Addison | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Caledonia | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Franklin, Lamoille, Orleans | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Orange | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Essex | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton, Franklin | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 12 hr |
Nearby
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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.