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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Burlington, VT

August 5, 2003Rutland County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 6:31 PM EDT for Rutland County, Vermont. It was in force for 5 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
Aug 5, 2003, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2003, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Rutland County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 478 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBTV 052239
FFWBTV
VTC021-060400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
631 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RUTLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT.

* AT 621 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAINFALL FALLING ALONG THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE GREEN 
  MOUNTAINS FROM PITTSFIELD SOUTH INTO MASSACHUSETTS. THE RAIN WAS
  MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 20 MPH.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF LOCALIZED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
  ALREADY FALLEN. RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH 8 PM WITH 
  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE.

  FLOODING OF STREETS...BASEMENTS...SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE
  LIKELY TONIGHT.


* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BELMONT...CASTLETON...
  CHITTENDEN...DANBY FOUR CORNERS... HUBBARDTON...KILLINGTON... 
  MENDON...MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS...MT. HOLLY...MT. TABOR...NORTH 
  CLARENDON...PAWLET... PITTSFIELD...PROCTOR...SHREWSBURY... 
  WALLINGFORD...WEST BRIDGEWATER AND RUTLAND.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 
SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$

LAT...LON 4377 7324 4386 7288 4381 7279 4371 7280
          4367 7266 4357 7277 4342 7278 4331 7288
          4332 7323

SLW
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS71 KBTV 060059
FFSBTV
VTC021-060400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
900 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RUTLAND COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

AT 845 PM...RADAR STILL INDICATES SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS RUTLAND
COUNTY WITH SOME ADDITIONAL RAIN SHOWERS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN
VERMONT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING
NORTH AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO EFFECT RUTLAND COUNTY
THROUGH 11 PM.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO AN HALF INCH OF RAIN IS LIKELY.
DOPPLER RADAR HAS ALREADY ESTIMATED LOCALIZED RAINFALL OF OVER 2
INCHES ALONG THE WESTERN SLOPES. THE COMBINATION OF EARLIER RAINFALL
AND SOME ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF CREEKS...
STREAMS...SMALL RIVERS AS WELL AS LOCAL ROAD WASH OUTS.

IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. IF
WATER COVERS THE ROAD...DONT CROSS THE ROAD - TURN AROUND...DONT
DROWN.

AGAIN...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RUTLAND COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT. ALSO...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM
WEDNESDAY.

$$

WHITTIER
000 
WGUS71 KBTV 060410
FFSBTV
VTC021-060440-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
1209 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RUTLAND COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED IN RUTLAND COUNTY...ENDING THE FLASH FLOOD
THREAT. ALTHOUGH STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL BEGIN TO RECEDE DURING THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS...SOME ROADWAYS MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. OBEY ALL ROAD CLOSURE SIGNS...THEY ARE THERE FOR YOUR
SAFETY.

$$

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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.