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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Burlington, VT

November 25, 201410 counties in Vermont; Essex County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this winter storm warning at Nov 25, 2014, 2:17 PM EST for 10 counties in Vermont; Essex County, New York. It took effect at Nov 26, 2014, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 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: Nov 25, 2014, 2:17 PM EST (19:17 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 26, 2014, 9:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 27, 2014, 6:33 AM EST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT

Counties Essex County, NY, Addison County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 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 Nov 25, 1:30 PM EST, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 1:30 PM EST, 47 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 24, 8:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Lamoille, Orange and 4 more	48 min
Nov 24, 9:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Addison, Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans and 3 more	37 min
Nov 25, 2:17 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BTV	Addison, Chittenden, Essex, Lamoille, Orleans	14 hr
Nov 24, 7:40 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Franklin	35 min
Nov 24, 7:52 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BTV	Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence	14 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2014 Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2014 Every winter storm warning in 2014

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.