Alert archive / Vermont / Winter Storm Warnings in 2008
Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this winter storm warning at Mar 4, 2008, 5:09 AM EST for 10 counties in Vermont; 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Mar 4, 2008, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 20 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
- Mar 4, 2008, 5:09 AM EST (10:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2008, 2:35 PM EST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, St. Lawrence 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, Washington County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 4, 1:06 AM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 1:06 AM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 5:09 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BTV | Rutland | 24 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 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.