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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2008, 6:35 PM EDT for Franklin County, St. Lawrence County, New York. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 18, 2008, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 18, 5:39 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 5:39 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 144 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 2008 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-191745- 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- 144 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 698 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN NEW YORK...CENTRAL VERMONT...NORTHEAST VERMONT...NORTHWEST VERMONT AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 18, 4:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 18, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Washington | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orange, Washington | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Chittenden | 42 min |
| Jul 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Orange, Washington, Windsor | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Franklin, Lamoille, Orleans | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windsor | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, Grand Isle | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange, Rutland, Windsor | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange, Windsor | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Chittenden, Franklin, Lamoille, Washington | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Franklin | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence | 61 min |
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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.