Flood, Franklin
- When
- April 12, 6:00 AM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 44.858, -72.912 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Vermont, April 12, 2001
Snow melt along with an ice jam near East Highgate, Vermont resulted in water from the Missisquoi River partially covering portions of Route 78 along with low land flooding.
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
- $5,000
- 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.
Snow melt along with an ice jam near East Highgate, Vermont resulted in water from the Missisquoi River partially covering portions of Route 78 along with low land flooding.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 12, 3:58 AM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 3:58 AM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 458 AM EDT THU APR 12 2001 BAND OF SHOWERS MOVG INTO VT ATTM...WITH AN AREA OF TSTMS MOVG NORTH ACROSS LK ONTARIO. IT APPEASR MOST OF AREA WILL SEE A BREAK IN THE PRECIP AFTER THIS FIRST BATCH MOVES THRU. MODELS HAVE CATEGORICAL POPS ACROSS FCST AREA TODAY AND WILL FOLLOW. BUFKIT SOUNDINGS SHOW ADIRONDACKS AND ST LAWRENCE VLY DESTABILIZE BY THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL PUT A CHC OF TSTMS IN THESE AREAS FOR TODAY. WILL PUT A CHC OF TSTMS IN ALL ZONES FOR TONIGHT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. BUFKIT SOUNDINGS SHOW FAIRLY STABLE CONDITIONS TONIGHT FROM THE CHAMPLAIN VLY EASTWARD...BUT TOTAL TOTALS ARE GREATER THAN 50 SO THERE COULD BE A CHC OF SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION FROM THE CHAMPLAIN VLY EASTWARD TONIGHT. TEMPS TRICKY TODAY GIVEN CLOUD COVER BUT WILL GO AT OR ABOVE MOS IN MOST ZONES. FRIDAY...A CHC OF SOME SCT SHOWERS UNDER MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES INTO EARLY FRI NIGHT BEFORE SKIES CLEAR OUT. COULD SEE SOME SNOW SHOWERS IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS EARLY FRI NIGHT. EXTENDED...WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRES OVER THE FCST AREA SAT INTO EARLY MON AND WILL GO WITH A DRY FCST HERE...WITH THE NEXT CHC OF ANY PRECIP MON NIGHT THRU WED. CLOSED UPR LOW WITH VERY COLD POOL OF AIR ALOFT TO MOVE OVER THE FCST AREA ON TUES. WILL GO WITH RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY FOR TUES...WITH A CHC ON WED. HYDRO...NOT EXPECTING ANY HEAVY PRECIP TODAY AND TONIGHT...SO AM NOT EXPECTING ANY FLOOD PROBLEM FROM PRECIP. MAIN CONCERN WILL BE FROM POSSIBLE ICE JAMS. .BTV...NONE. WGH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Puerto Rico, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Michigan, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in New York, April 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Illinois, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Indiana, April 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, April 12 to 18, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 12, 2001
- Flooding in Ohio, April 12 to 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, April 2001
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: 5243767.