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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2023, 6:53 PM EDT for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 12, 2023, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2023, 9:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Essex County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 369 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
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 12, 3:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Burlington VT 234 PM EDT Sat Aug 12 2023 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>011-016>021-131845- 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- 234 PM EDT Sat Aug 12 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern New York, central Vermont, northeast Vermont, northwest Vermont and southern Vermont. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms will continue to overspread the region this afternoon and evening. A few thunderstorms could be on the strong, or even possibly severe, side during the afternoon and early evening hours with gusty winds and hail possible. Brief heavy rainfall will also be possible with thunderstorms, but no flash flooding is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:25 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Chittenden | 66 min |
| Aug 12, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | Essex | 65 min |
| Aug 12, 6:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BTV | Essex, Franklin | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | St. Lawrence | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BTV | St. Lawrence | 46 min |
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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.