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Snow Squall Warning 2, NWS Burlington, VT

January 14, 2024Essex County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this snow squall warning at Jan 14, 2024, 12:00 PM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 30 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: Jan 14, 2024, 12:00 PM EST (17:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2024, 12:30 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Significant

County Essex County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -61 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 snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Jan 13, 5:36 PM EST, 18 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 5:36 PM EST, 18 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 12:23 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BTV	Grand Isle	52 min
Jan 14, 12:37 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	BTV	Addison, Chittenden, Lamoille	38 min
Jan 14, 1:07 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BTV	Addison, Orange, Rutland, Windsor	38 min
Jan 14, 1:19 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	BTV	Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orleans, Rutland and 1 more	41 min
Jan 14, 1:49 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BTV	Rutland, Windsor	26 min
Jan 14, 2:02 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	BTV	Addison, Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans and 3 more	28 min
Jan 14, 2:15 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	BTV	Orange, Windsor	30 min
Jan 14, 2:41 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	BTV	Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington and 1 more	64 min
Jan 14, 3:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Washington	47 min
Jan 14, 3:19 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BTV	Orleans	41 min
Jan 14, 11:11 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BTV	Essex	34 min

Nearby

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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.