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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT

January 10, 2020Franklin County, Grand Isle County, Vermont; Clinton County, Franklin County, St. Lawrence County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this ice storm warning at Jan 10, 2020, 3:38 PM EST for Franklin County, Grand Isle County, Vermont; Clinton County, Franklin County, St. Lawrence County, New York. It took effect at Jan 11, 2020, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 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
Jan 10, 2020, 3:38 PM EST (20:38 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 11, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 12, 2020, 10:16 AM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT

Counties Clinton County, NY, Franklin County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2020-01-10Temperature 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 2020-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 375 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
490 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
Jan 10, 3:01 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchBTVEssex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Orleans13 hr
Jan 10, 3:38 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBTVAddison, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille and 1 more43 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in New York, 2020Ice Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2020Every ice storm warning in 2020

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.