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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Burlington, VT

July 2, 2023Clinton County, Franklin County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2023, 3:13 PM EDT for Clinton County, Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 2, 2023, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2023, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Clinton County, NY, Franklin County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 309 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: 636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 2, 2:38 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:38 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 3:37 AM EDT, 11 hours 36 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Burlington VT
337 AM EDT Sun Jul 2 2023

NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>011-016>021-030745-
Northern St. Lawrence-Northern Franklin-Eastern Clinton-
Southeastern St. Lawrence-Southern Franklin-Western Clinton-
Western Essex-Eastern Essex-Southwestern St. Lawrence-Grand Isle-
Western Franklin-Orleans-Essex-Western Chittenden-Lamoille-Caledonia-
Washington-Western Addison-Orange-Western Rutland-Eastern Franklin-
Eastern Chittenden-Eastern Addison-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor-
Eastern Windsor-
337 AM EDT Sun Jul 2 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern New York, central
Vermont, northeast Vermont, northwest Vermont and southern Vermont.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

More showers, with a chance of thunderstorms, are expected across the
region. The greatest threat will be locally heavy rainfall, which may
cause localized flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 11:24 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Burlington VT
1124 AM EDT Sun Jul 02 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0607 AM     Flood            1 NNW Irona             44.92N  73.71W
07/02/2023                   Clinton            NY   Public

            Video on social media shows flood waters over Timber
            Lane in Mooers Fork.

&&

Event Number BTV2301635

Clay

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 4:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Franklin	94 min
Jul 1, 8:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	3 hr
Jul 2, 12:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	3 hr
Jul 2, 1:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton	6 hr
Jul 2, 2:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton	5 hr
Jul 2, 9:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton	6 hr
Jul 2, 12:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton	3 hr
Jul 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	3 hr
Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	2 hr
Jul 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	2 hr

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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.