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Winter Storm Warning 10, NWS Burlington, VT

October 28, 2008Franklin County, Orleans County, Vermont; 4 counties in New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this winter storm warning at Oct 28, 2008, 3:23 AM EDT for Franklin County, Orleans County, Vermont; 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Oct 28, 2008, 10:53 AM EDT. It was in force for 34 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 2008, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 28, 2008, 10:53 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 29, 2008, 9:17 PM EDT
In force
34 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT

Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Franklin County, VT, Orleans County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 00:00Z on 2008-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2008-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -97 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 28, 3:23 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBTVAddison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Lamoille and 2 more42 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2008Every winter storm 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.