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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2026, 2:27 PM EDT for Orange County, Rutland County, Windsor County, Vermont. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 18, 2026, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:58 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 18, 1:42 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:42 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 10:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Burlington VT 1005 AM EDT Thu Jun 18 2026 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>009-011-016>020-191415- 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-Western Rutland-Eastern Franklin- Eastern Chittenden-Eastern Addison-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor- 1005 AM EDT Thu Jun 18 2026 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...TORNADO WATCH 352 IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern New York, central Vermont, northeast Vermont, northwest Vermont and southern Vermont. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. VTZ010-021-191415- Orange-Eastern Windsor- 1005 AM EDT Thu Jun 18 2026 ...TORNADO WATCH 352 IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Vermont and southern Vermont. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. 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, Jun 18, 1:45 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Chittenden, Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orange, Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland, Windsor | 41 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.