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Special Weather Statement, NWS Burlington, VT

April 7, 2016Rutland County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this special weather statement at Apr 7, 2016, 4:53 PM EDT for Rutland County, Vermont. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2016, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT

County Rutland County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 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

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 21 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 21 hours 16 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
Apr 6, 11:44 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	BTV	Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille and 2 more	6 hr
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
Apr 7, 2:17 PM EDT	Flood Watch	BTV	Clinton, Essex, Franklin	11 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Vermont, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.