Vermont, 2002

Flood in Vermont, June 12, 2002

June 12, 2002 · NWS BTV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A frontal boundary stalled across portions of New York and New England and helped to focus heavy rainfall across this area. Convective precipitation moved from northwest to southeast across the area from Canada.

Where it happened

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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.

A frontal boundary stalled across portions of New York and New England and helped to focus heavy rainfall across this area. Convective precipitation moved from northwest to southeast across the area from Canada. Rainfall from midday on June 11th through the early afternoon of June 12th averaged 2 to 4 inches, with locally higher amounts in the mountainous areas. Countywide small stream and field flooding started around mid-morning hours of June 12th and continued into the afternoon of the 12th. In Essex county, flooding isolated Maidstone Lake Park for a short time.

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 Jun 12, 8:20 AM EST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:20 AM EST, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
920 AM EDT WED JUN 12 2002

YDA AND LAST NGT/S HVY RA EVENT WAS A CLASSIC SETUP FOR EXCESSIVE
RAFL/FLOODING ACRS FA.  HI PW AXIS (1.5-2)...STNRY NW-SE BNDRY...
STG AND PERSISTANT LL CNVGC/FGEN N OF BNDRY AND NW FLOW FOR TRAINING
ALF BNDRY AND OROGGRAPHIC LIFT.  RESULT WAS 2-4 RAFL ACRS FAR NE NY
AND N VT.  FLOOD WRNGS IN EFFECT FOR CLINTON NY AND FRANKLIN...
LAMOILLE...ORLEANS AND CALEDONIA CNTIES IN VT.

THE GOOD NEWS IS AXIS OF RAFL WL BE SHFTG S TAFTN AS BEST LIFT/MSTR
MOV S OF RGN AS SFC WAVE CNTRL NY MVS SE.  DRIER AIR ADVCTG IN FM
THE N AS PW/S FCST TO DECR STEADILY TDA DROPPING BLO 1 BY LT AFTN.
BASED ON LTST RDR TRNDS STILL LOOKS LIKE SVRL MORE HRS OF RAFL N ZNS
AND 06Z ETA SHWG UP TO AN ADDITL 0.5 THRU 18Z SO WL EXTEND THE
FLOOD WATCH THRU TAFTN TO ACCT FOR ADDITL RUNOFF.  NO OTHER CHGS.

.BTV...FLOOD WATCH FOR NYZ026>031-034-035-VTZ001>012 THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON.

KJC

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Essex

When
June 12, 8:30 AM EST to 3:30 PM EST
Where
Essex forecast zone
Property damage
$10,000
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
44.728, -71.736 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5304929.