Heavy Rain in Vermont, September 8, 1999

Name: Heavy Rain in Vermont, September 8, 1999
Start: 1999-09-08T17:37
End: 1999-09-08T18:56
Location: Vermont

September 8, 1999 · NWS BTV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A weak weather disturbance moved across New England during the afternoon of Wednesday, September 8th. This resulted in late afternoon and evening thunderstorms across northern Vermont.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 weak weather disturbance moved across New England during the afternoon of Wednesday, September 8th. This resulted in late afternoon and evening thunderstorms across northern Vermont. Locally heavy rainfall was reported...especially in the Burlington area. Thunderstorms reformed on the outflow boundary resulting in numerous thunderstorms moving over the same area. No flooding was reported, but ponding on area roadways caused difficult travel with some traffic lights becoming inoperable for a few hours. At the Burlington International Airport, 2.24 inches of rain fell setting a new 1 hour and 2 hour record rainfall rate. The rain was accompanied by wind gusts to 35 knots (40 mph).

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Chittenden

When: September 8, 5:37 PM EST to 6:56 PM EST
Where: Chittenden County, (Btv)burlington Arpt
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.461, -73.081 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heavy Rain: Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Vermont in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Vermont, September 1999

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5721389.