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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Burlington, VT

November 30, 20105 counties in Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this high wind watch at Nov 30, 2010, 3:03 AM EST for 5 counties in Vermont. It took effect at Dec 1, 2010, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 30, 2010, 3:03 AM EST (08:03 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 1, 2010, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 30, 2010, 3:48 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT

Counties Addison County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Rutland County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 30, 1:18 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 1:18 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 3:48 PM EST	High Wind Warning	BTV	Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Lamoille, Rutland	26 hr
Nov 30, 3:48 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BTV	Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Orange, Orleans and 1 more	26 hr
Nov 30, 2:58 AM EST	Flood Watch	BTV	Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence	43 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Vermont, 2010 Every high wind watch in 2010

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.