Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2002, 7:47 PM EDT for Franklin County, Vermont. It was in force for 6 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
- Jun 5, 2002, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBTV 052347 FFWBTV VTC011-060530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 746 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN VERMONT * UNTIL 130 AM EDT. * AT 746 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND WEATHER SPOTTERS INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. WASHOUTS HAVE OCCURRED ON ROUTE 58 BETWEEN MONTGOMERY CENTER AND LOWELL AND SMALL STREAMS HAVE ALSO OVERFLOWED THEIR BANKS IN THIS AREA. AREAS ALONG THE TROUT RIVER FROM MONTGOMERY CENTER TO EAST BERKSHIRE WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY...ESPECIALLY ALONG ROUTE 118 FROM EAST BERKSHIRE TO MONTGOMERY CENTER. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY AS WATER LEVELS RISE. $$ LAT...LON 4483 7296 4475 7281 4486 7262 4511 7271
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KBTV 060247 CCA
FFSBTV
VTC011-060530-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED COUNTY UGC CODE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
1017 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR FRANKLIN
COUNTY VERMONT...
STATE POLICE IN SAINT ALBANS CONTINUE TO REPORT HIGH WATER ACROSS
PORTIONS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY VERMONT...ALTHOUGH WATER LEVELS WERE
BEGINNING TO SLOWLY RECEDE. NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING LED TO THE
FLASH FLOODING. WATER WAS CONTINUING TO COVER ROADS IN
MONTGOMERY...RICHFORD...ENOSBURG...AND SAINT ALBANS AS OF LATE
TONIGHT. MANY BASEMENTS WERE REPORTED FLOODED IN SAINT ALBANS AND
STREAMS WERE OVER THEIR BANKS IN EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...
ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE MONTGOMERY AREA. AREAS ALONG THE TROUT
RIVER...FROM MONTGOMERY TO EAST BERKSHIRE...MAY STILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE
TO FLASH FLOODING TONIGHT. RADAR TRENDS ARE SHOWING THAT THE
PRECIPITATION IS DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE OVER THE
AREA.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY
AS WATER LEVELS RISE.
$$
LAT...LON 4474 7316 4466 7293 4486 7272 4500 7258
4499 7312
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.