Flood, Rutland
- When
- April 13, 4:15 PM EST to April 15, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Rutland forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.580, -73.037 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Vermont, April 13 to 15, 2001
A combination of snowmelt, rainfall and local ice jams resulted in the Otter Creek exceeding it's flood stage. High water in and around the towns of Brandon and Pittsford resulted in the closure of a few local roads.
Where it happened
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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.
A combination of snowmelt, rainfall and local ice jams resulted in the Otter Creek exceeding it's flood stage. High water in and around the towns of Brandon and Pittsford resulted in the closure of a few local roads. The river gage in Center Rutland exceeded it's flood stage during this time period.
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 13, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 300 PM EDT FRI APR 13 2001 SHORTWAVE TROUGH TO CLIP NORTHERN ZONES THIS EVENING...WITH LIGHT PRECIP GENERALLY NORTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THIS FEATURE RAPIDLY FOLLOWED BY AN AMPLIFYING SHORTWAVE RIDGE WHICH SHOULD ACCELERATE CLEARING OVERNIGHT. 12 UTC MODELS PRETTY MUCH IN AGREEMENT THROUGH THIS FORECAST PERIOD. SOMEWHAT COOLER MAX TEMPERATURES (45-55F) ON SATURDAY BUT PLENTY OF SUNSHINE AND DIMINISHING WINDS FOR THE OPENING DAY OF VERMONT TROUT SEASON. A WEAK WAVELET BRUSHES PAST THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING...BUT MOST AREAS SHOULD ONLY SEE A FEW FLURRIES OR SPRINKLES...IF THAT. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR FINE EGG-HUNTING WEATHER...WITH MAX TEMPERATURES MOSTLY IN THE LOWER 50S. DAYS 3 TO 7...MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS REMAINING CONSISTENT IN CARVING OUT A LARGE COLD UPPER TROUGH OVER THE REGION THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES SOME 10-15F BELOW NORMAL BY TUESDAY. CHANCE OF PRECIP (INCLUDING SNOW) MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT TUESDAY LOOKS THE MOST MISERABLE SO HAVE CARRIED THE LIKELY WORDING. MRF HINTING AT SOME IMPROVEMENT BY LATE IN THE WEEK SO HAVE WORDED DAYS 6/7 MORE OPTIMISTICALLY. HYDRO...STATUS QUO. FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GREAT CHAZY RIVER. ALL OTHER RIVERS HAVE CRESTED OR SHOULD CREST BELOW FLOOD STAGE EARLY THIS EVENING. ST. JEAN .BT?V...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE GREAT CHAZY R AT PERRY MILLS.
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 Florida, April 13, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 13 to 30, 2001
- Flood in New York, April 13 to 16, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, April 13 to 15, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, April 13 to 30, 2001
- Flooding in Illinois, April 13 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Connecticut, April 13 to 20, 2001
- Flood in Connecticut, April 13 to 21, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, April 13, 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: 5243768.