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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Burlington, VT

May 10, 2000Franklin County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2000, 7:28 PM EDT for Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
May 10, 2000, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 331 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KBTV 102332
FFWBTV
NYC033-110130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
728 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 725 PM EDT...LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS REPORT FLOODED OR WASHED OUT
  ROADS ACROSS VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...INCLUDING 
  NEAR MALONE. THE HEAVUEST RAIN HAS SUBSIDED BUT SMALL STREAMS WILL
  CONTINUE TO FLOW OVER THEIR BANKS THROUGH 9 PM.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WEST BANGOR...ST. REGIS 
  FALLS...PAUL SMITHS...FORT COVINGTON...DUANE CENTER AND CHASM FALLS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
BURLINGTON.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence57 min
May 10, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence39 min
May 10, 1:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVSt. Lawrence3 hr
May 10, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVFranklin57 min
May 10, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVClinton46 min
May 10, 2:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVFranklin3 hr
May 10, 4:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBTVFranklin, St. Lawrence3 hr

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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.