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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Burlington, VT

May 30, 1998Caledonia County, Orleans County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1998, 2:11 AM EDT for Caledonia County, Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 30, 1998, 2:11 AM EDT (06:11 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1998, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Whole counties

Counties Caledonia County, VT, Orleans County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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 30, 2:20 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Brownington Center, 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 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, 1:40 PM EDT, 12 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:40 PM EDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
140 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998

DUE TO CNVCTN HAVENT LOOKED AT ANYTHING BEYOND THE PRESENT SO WL
KEEP THIS SHORT.  CNVCTV ACTVTY WL CONT INTO THIS EVE BFR FNT MVS
THRU AND BRINGS IT TO AN END.

SPC HAS ST LAW VLY IN SLGT RISK TMRW AS THEY XPCT AN MCS TO FORM AND
PSBLY MAKE IT INTO ST LAW VLY TMRW MRNG.  OTHERWISE TMRW SHUD BE
PRETTY DECENT WITH PCPN RTNG LTR SUN.  FWC POPS GO CAT BY SUN NGT.

FWC/FAN IN RSNBL AGREEMENT.

MCGILL

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.