Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 1:36 PM EDT for Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 64 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1998, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 2:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orleans County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Brownington Center, VT | |
| May 29, 2:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Derby Center, VT | |
| May 29, 2:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Newport, VT |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 May 29, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 945 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 CLUSTER OF SHWRS/TSTMS HEADING INTO ST LAW VLY ATTM. AFT THAT SHUD BE QUIET FOR A WHL UNTIL THINGS START FIRING THIS AFTN. TEMPS ALREADY WELL INTO 70S WITH PLENTY OF SS ATTM. CURRENT TEMPS LOOK OK...ALTHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE NE VT RAISED TO 80-85. TEMPS YSTRDY WERE GNRLY IN THIS RNG AND SHUD BE AGAIN TDY. MCGILL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NYZ026>031-034-035-292215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1212 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN NEW YORK UNTIL 600 PM TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES ST. LAWRENCE...FRANKLIN...CLINTON AND ESSEX COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MCGILL
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NYZ026>031-034-035-292215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1212 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN NEW YORK UNTIL 600 PM TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES ST. LAWRENCE...FRANKLIN...CLINTON AND ESSEX COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MCGILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, Grand Isle | 47 min |
| May 29, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 37 min |
| May 29, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Washington | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Windsor | 61 min |
| May 29, 11:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 67 min |
| May 29, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1998Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.