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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Burlington, VT

July 1, 2020Caledonia County, Essex County, Orleans County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2020, 5:07 PM EDT for Caledonia County, Essex County, Orleans County, Vermont. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2020, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Caledonia County, VT, Essex County, VT, Orleans County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 373 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2020-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2020-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 7:43 PM EDT, 21 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:43 PM EDT, 21 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 1:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVEssex58 min
Jul 1, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVOrleans23 min
Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVOrleans58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 2020Every severe thunderstorm 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.