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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Burlington, VT

July 10, 2001Washington County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2001, 2:31 PM EDT for Washington County, Vermont. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 10, 2001, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2001, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
29 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 18:31 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 10, 2:55 PM EDTHail 0.88Northfield, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 10, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2001-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2001-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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 
WUUS51 KBTV 101832
SVRBTV

VTC023-101900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
231 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN VERMONT

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARREN...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR ROXBURY AROUND 240 PM EDT
  NEAR NORTHFIELD AROUND 250 PM EDT
  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BARRE...9 MILES SOUTH OF BARRE AROUND
  300 PM EDT

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.

.END

HANSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 12:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVGrand Isle32 min
Jul 10, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVFranklin49 min
Jul 10, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVLamoille41 min
Jul 10, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison52 min
Jul 10, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVRutland38 min
Jul 10, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison31 min
Jul 10, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOrange24 min
Jul 10, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVRutland, Windsor43 min
Jul 10, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOrange30 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVRutland37 min
Jul 10, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOrange28 min
Jul 10, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVWindsor41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.