Alert archive / Vermont / River Flood Warnings in 2008
River Flood Warning 3, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this river flood warning at Mar 8, 2008, 10:58 PM EST for Rutland County, Vermont. It took effect at Mar 9, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2008, 10:58 PM EST (03:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 9, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2008, 8:37 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Rutland County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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 river
Written for the forecast point Otter Creek at Center Rutland (CENV1).
- Action stage
- 6 ft
- Minor stage
- 8 ft
- Moderate stage
- 10 ft
- Major stage
- 12 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04282000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 8, 10:36 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 10:36 PM EST, 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:43 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 643 PM EST SAT MAR 8 2008 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-090545- NORTHERN ST. LAWRENCE-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN CLINTON- SOUTHEASTERN ST. LAWRENCE-SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-WESTERN CLINTON- WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-SOUTHWESTERN ST. LAWRENCE-GRAND ISLE- WESTERN FRANKLIN-ORLEANS-ESSEX-WESTERN CHITTENDEN-LAMOILLE- CALEDONIA-WASHINGTON-WESTERN ADDISON-ORANGE-WESTERN RUTLAND- WINDSOR-EASTERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN CHITTENDEN-EASTERN ADDISON- EASTERN RUTLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MASSENA...MALONE...PLATTSBURGH... STAR LAKE...SARANAC LAKE...TUPPER LAKE...DANNEMORA... LAKE PLACID...PORT HENRY...TICONDEROGA...OGDENSBURG...POTSDAM... GOUVERNEUR...ALBURGH...SOUTH HERO...ST. ALBANS...NEWPORT... ISLAND POND...BURLINGTON...JOHNSON...STOWE...ST. JOHNSBURY... MONTPELIER...MIDDLEBURY...VERGENNES...BRADFORD...RANDOLPH... RUTLAND...SPRINGFIELD...WHITE RIVER JUNCTION...ENOSBURG FALLS... RICHFORD...UNDERHILL...BRISTOL...RIPTON...EAST WALLINGFORD... KILLINGTON 643 PM EST SAT MAR 8 2008 ...DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTH COUNTRY TONIGHT... COORDINATION WITH STATE POLICE OFFICES THROUGHOUT VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK INDICATE ICE IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE AREA. ICY ROAD CONDITIONS EXIST...BUT THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS HAVE BEEN ON TREES AND POWER LINES. THIS IS RESULTING IN TREES AND POWER LINES COMING DOWN...CAUSING POWER OUTAGES. STATE POLICE IN VERMONT INDICATE TREES AND OR POWER LINES DOWN IN DERBY...PITTSFORD...SHELDON...SAINT ALBANS...HIGHGATE... GEORGIA...SWANTON...AND BURLINGTON. STATE POLICE IN NEW YORK REPORT TREES AND OR POWER LINES DOWN IN TICONDEROGA...MINEVILLE... SOUTH COLTON...AND FINE. WHILE THE STEADIER FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL BE TAPERING OFF THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...EXPECT ADDITIONAL TREE AND POWER LINE ISSUES RESULTING IN MORE POWER INTERRUPTIONS. ALSO...BE CAREFUL WHEN TRAVELING ON ICY ROADS AND BE AWARE OF BLOCKED ROADS DUE TO FALLEN TREES AND POWER LINES. GUSTY WINDS WILL BE DEVELOPING TOWARD MIDNIGHT AND THIS WILL ALSO HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE AREA AS MORE TREES AND POWER LINES MAY COME DOWN. TRAVEL ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK AND THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF VERMONT WILL BE DANGEROUS TONIGHT. DO NOT TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY EVENSON
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.