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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2005, 3:25 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2005, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Warren County, NY, Addison County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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.
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex, Orleans | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin | 94 min |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 75 min |
| Aug 2, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex, Franklin | 90 min |
| Aug 2, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sagadahoc | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 52 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Lincoln and 7 more | 91 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.