Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood watch at Jun 29, 2008, 3:45 AM EDT for 11 counties in Vermont; Clinton County, Essex County, New York. It took effect at Jun 29, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2008, 3:45 AM EDT (07:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 29, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2008, 11:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex 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
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 29, 1:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Rutland, Windsor | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Vermont, 2008Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.