Alert archive / Vermont / High Wind Watches in 2024

High Wind Watch 2, NWS Burlington, VT

January 11, 20246 counties in Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this high wind watch at Jan 11, 2024, 3:27 AM EST for 6 counties in Vermont. It took effect at Jan 12, 2024, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 11, 2024, 3:27 AM EST (08:27 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 12, 2024, 9:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 12, 2024, 3:20 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT

Counties Addison County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 392 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2024-01-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2024-01-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 11, 12:40 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 12:40 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 11, 2:41 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBTVClinton, Essex13 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Vermont, 2024Every high wind watch in 2024

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.