Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 2:44 PM EDT for Washington County, Vermont. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 3, 2000, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Berlin, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBTV 031845 SVRBTV VTC023-031915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 244 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN VERMONT * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR MONTPELIER...SOUTH BARRE AROUND 240 PM NEAR BARRE AROUND 250 PM NEAR PLAINFIELD AROUND 300 PM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MARSHFIELD AROUND 310 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. $$ HANSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, Grand Isle | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Washington | 46 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.