Flash Flood, Orleans
- When
- March 29, 8:00 PM EST to March 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Orleans County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.829, -72.244 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Vermont, March 29 to 31, 1998
Unseasonably warm weather resulted in dramatic snowmelt with rapid rises on rivers the last few days of March. In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours moved across the area on the 30th further enhancing runoff into rivers and streams.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $10,000
- 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.
Unseasonably warm weather resulted in dramatic snowmelt with rapid rises on rivers the last few days of March. In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours moved across the area on the 30th further enhancing runoff into rivers and streams. In particular, the Black River began flooding fields the evening of the 29th and continued through the end of the month. At times route 5 in the coventry area was impacted by flood waters from this river.
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:58 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornado in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornado in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornado in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, March 29, 1998
- Tornado in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
- Hail and High Wind in Kansas, March 29 to 31, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, March 29, 1998
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, March 29, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, March 29, 1998
More
Every storm in Vermont in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, March 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: 5656845.