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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Burlington, VT

August 8, 2008Addison County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT for Addison County, Vermont. It was in force for 28 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, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2008, 2:53 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Addison County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 7, 7:51 PM EDT, 18 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:51 PM EDT, 18 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBTVAddison, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windsor3 hr
Aug 8, 1:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBTVAddison, Orange, Rutland, Windsor3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.