High Wind, Chittenden
- When
- February 10, 6:30 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Chittenden forecast zone
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.461, -73.081 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Vermont, February 10, 2001
A strong storm system moved across the Canadian Province of Quebec Friday night, February 9th and Saturday, February 10th. The associated cold front was accompanied and followed by very windy conditions.
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
- 1
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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 strong storm system moved across the Canadian Province of Quebec Friday night, February 9th and Saturday, February 10th. The associated cold front was accompanied and followed by very windy conditions. In the town of Milton, a tree was uprooted by the wind and destroyed a car injuring the driver. This incident occurred around 7 AM. Winds also blew down scaffolding in the town of Williston. Trees and power lines were blown down in Charlotte around 830 AM with power outages reported.
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 Feb 10, 3:35 AM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 3:35 AM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
335 AM EST SAT FEB 10 2001
MOS NOT AVBL...BUT GOING FCST IN GOOD SHAPE AND WAS ABLE TO
INITIALIZE OFF IT.
SFC LO PRES TO N IN QUEBEC...WTH CDFNT SWEEPING THRU WRN NY. CDFNT
SHUD BE THRU MSS BY 09Z...SLK BY 10Z...BTV 11-12...AND ALL OF VT BY
13-14Z. WITH THAT IN MIND...I WORDED ZNS AS IF FNT WAS ALREADY
THRU...OTRW IT WUD BE INSTANTLY OUTDATED. AREA RA AHD AND ALG FNT
WL CHANGE OVER QUICKLY TO SNSH. VIGOROUS S/WV MOVG ALG WTH FNT...
THEN ANOTR VORT LOBE ROTATES THRU UPR TROF RIGHT BHND FNT...KEEPING
SNSH GOING THRU REST OF MRNG.
OF COURSE THE BIG STORY TDA WL BE THE HIGH WNDS. SW WND AHD OF FNT
STARTING TO PICK UP IN MSS AND SLK WTH GUSTS 25-30 KT. THIS WL ONLY
INCRS AS FNT PASSES AND WNDS SHFT TO NW. KTYX VAD WNDS SHOW 70 KT
WNDS FROM WSW AT 3K FT...AND BUFKIT HAS 50-60 KT WNDS BHND FNT DOWN
TO NR 5K FT THRU MID DAY AT SLK. SUSTAINED WNDS AT OR ABV 40 MPH
TODAY A GOOD BET IN 'DACKS. PSBLTY OF MOMEMENTUM CONSERVED IN
DOWNSLOPE ON ERN SIDE WL KEEP WNDS STRONG IN WRN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY.
HIGH WND WRNG CONTINUED FOR NRN ADIRONDACKS/WRN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
TODAY. WND ADVSRY EVERYWHERE ELSE.
TEMPS...MASSENA MIGHT HAVE TIED RECORD MAX FOR TDA OF 51...BUT
UNCERTAIN IF IT HAPPENED BEFORE OR AFT MIDNIGHT. BTV HAS TIED
RECORD HI OF 46. CENTRAL GREEN MTNS WARMED INTO 40S AFT MIDNIGHT...
BUT SPENT MOST OF DAY FRI AND FRI NIGHT IN 30S. WE CAN KISS
THOSE WARM TEMPS GOODBYE...AS THEY PLUMMET DURING DAY TDA.
STILL A BIT BREEZY AND RESIDUAL CLDS TONIGHT...WTH WNDS REALLY
DECREASING SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SUN NIGHT WL BE A GOOD RADIATION NIGHT.
DROPPED TEMPS A BIT FROM PREV FCST...AS SKIES CLR OUT AND HIGH PRES
SLIDES BY DURG NIGHT.
HYDRO...STILL NOT SEEING MUCH IN THE WAY OF RISES ON RIVERS.
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND ADIRONDACKS HAVE SPENT THE MOST TIME IN THE
40S...FROM MIDDAY FRIDAY THRU NOW. GREEN MTNS WERE MAINLY IN 30S
FRI...SO LESS SNOMELT OVER THERE. LOOKS LIKE ICE JAM THREAT
MARGINAL NOW WTH MINIMAL RISES BEING SEEN...BUT WL CONT TO MONITOR
CLOSELY.
WK ZONES OUT...WL SEND THE REST SHORTLY.
.BTV...HIGH WIND WARNING NYZ028>031-034-035 TODAY.
WI7ND ADVISORY FOR TODAY VTZ001>012 NYZ026-027.
HANSONThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flood in Michigan, February 10 to 13, 2001
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Alaska, February 10 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in New York, February 10, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 10, 2001
- High Wind in New York, February 10, 2001
- High Wind in New York, February 10, 2001
- Hail in California, February 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 10 to 11, 2001
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Massachusetts, February 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 10, 2001
- Rip Current in Guam, February 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 10 to 11, 2001
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, February 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: 5234450.