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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Burlington, VT

February 23, 201211 counties in Vermont; 4 counties in New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this winter storm watch at Feb 23, 2012, 9:42 AM EST for 11 counties in Vermont; 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Feb 24, 2012, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 23, 2012, 9:42 AM EST (14:42 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 24, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 23, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
In force
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, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:45 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 2012-02-23Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2012-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 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
Feb 23, 3:00 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningBTVAddison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Lamoille and 4 more56 hr
Feb 23, 3:00 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBTVAddison, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Rutland34 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Vermont, 2012Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2012Every winter storm watch in 2012

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.