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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Burlington, VT

August 8, 2003Orleans County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2003, 7:01 PM EDT for Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 119 min. 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 8, 2003, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Whole counties

County Orleans County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBTV 082306
FFWBTV
VTC019-090100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
701 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ORLEANS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST VERMONT

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 655 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SERIES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL THAT 
  CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER A LOWELL TO ALBANY TO IRASBURG TO ORLEANS 
  LINE.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF WIDESPREAD 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
BUT LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 4 INCHES BETWEEN LOWELL AND ALBANY.


* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE ALBANY...BARTON...
  COVENTRY...DERBY CENTER...LOWELL...MORGAN CENTER...NEWPORT
  CENTER...NORTH TROY...ORLEANS...TROY...WEST CHARLESTON...WEST
  GLOVER AND WESTFIELD

ROAD WASHOUTS...ERODING OF SHOULDERS...MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING OF
LOW-LYING AREAS ARE LIKELY. CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE 
RAPIDLY POSSIBLY CAUSING MORE SERIOUS FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A 
STREAM...BE AWARE OF RISING WATER AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD 
WATERS THREATEN. 

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

IF YOU WITNESS ANY FLOODING, PLEASE CALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 
ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
$$

LAT...LON 4480 7258 4468 7240 4472 7214 4496 7194
          4499 7242

SLW

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS71 KBTV 090001
FFSBTV
VTC019-090100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
755 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ORLEANS COUNTY VERMONT UNTIL 
900 PM EDT...

AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE BACK EDGE OF SHOWERS FROM NEWPORT TO WESTMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 25 MPH. THESE SHOWERS SHOULD EXIT ORLEANS COUNTY BY 815 PM.

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE REPORTED WATER FLOWING OVER ROUTE 100 
NEAR LOWELL. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES LOCALLY 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN
MAY HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN LOWELL...ALBANY AND IRASBURG. 

THEREFORE...WE EXPECT MORE ROADS TO EXPERIENCE WATER OR DEBRIS ON 
THEM AS WELL AS CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS IN THESE AREAS TO CONTINUE 
TO RISE RAPIDLY THROUGH 9 PM BEFORE SLOWLY RECEDING AFTERWARDS. 

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO 
RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 
SHOULD BE ABANDONED. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

IF YOU WITNESS ANY FLOODING, SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY THEN 
PLEASE CALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT 
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

LAT...LON 4493 7222 4481 7205 4540 7101 4565 7137

WHITTIER

000 
WGUS71 KBTV 090101
FFSBTV
VTC019-090130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
900 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ORLEANS COUNTY VERMONT HAS EXPIRED...

AT 855 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS HAVE EXITED ORLEANS COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED
A LARGE AREA OF OVER AN INCH OF RAIN BUT SOME LOCALIZED AMOUNTS IN
EXCESS OF 3 INCHES.

EARLIER THIS EVENING...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER FLOWING 
OVER ROUTE 100 NEAR LOWELL. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES LOCALLY 3 TO 4 
INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN LOWELL...ALBANY AND IRASBURG. 

CREEKS AND STREAMS WITHIN ORLEANS COUNTY ARE LIKELY CRESTING AT THIS
TIME AND SHOULD BEGIN TO RECEDE FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. THERE STILL
MAY BE AN ISOLATED FLOODING EPISODE DURING THIS CREST STAGE BUT THE
TREND IS FOR RECEDING WATER LEVELS AND DECREASING FLOOD THREAT.

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

REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER 
COVERS THE ROADWAY AND BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT. IF YOU 
WITNESS ANY FLOODING, SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY THEN PLEASE 
CALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT 
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

LAT...LON 4493 7222 4481 7205 4540 7101 4565 7137

WHITTIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Lamoille	87 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.