Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2016
Flood Watch 1, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flood watch at Apr 7, 2016, 2:17 PM EDT for Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, New York. It took effect at Apr 7, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2016, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2016, 1:21 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Apr 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 18 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 18 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:44 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BTV | Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Rutland | 37 min |
| Apr 7, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Addison, Rutland | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Orange, Washington, Windsor | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Caledonia, Orleans | 63 min |
Nearby
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.