Flash Flood, Chittenden
- When
- July 16, 8:15 PM EST to 9:45 PM EST
- Where
- Chittenden County, Hinesburg
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 44.461, -73.081 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Vermont, July 16, 1998
A warm and moist unstable airmass was in place across Vermont ahead of a cold front. Thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and early night hours with locally torrential rainfall.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
A warm and moist unstable airmass was in place across Vermont ahead of a cold front. Thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and early night hours with locally torrential rainfall. Several roads were washed out in the Vermont town of Hinesburg.
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, July 16 to 21, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 16, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 16, 1998
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 16, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 16, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, July 16, 1998
More
Every storm in Vermont in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, July 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5669174.