Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- May 30, 6:50 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, Fletcher
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.683, -72.917
Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 30, 2002
A cold front moved southeast from Canada and triggered late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Trees were blown down in the town of Fletcher.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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 cold front moved southeast from Canada and triggered late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Trees were blown down in the town of Fletcher.
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 May 30, 3:10 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:10 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 410 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2002 SHRA/TSRA DVLPMNT HAS INCREASED ONCE AGAIN ACRS FA THIS PM AS SOME BRKS IN CLD CVR HAVE ALLOWED FOR SOME SUNSHINE AND RESULTANT INSTABILITY. MORE IMPRESSIVE STORMS NORTH OF BORDER OVR SERN ONT ENTERING QUE. THESE ASSOCD WITH SHRTWV SLIDING ACRS SRN CANADA. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO RMN NORTH OF BORDER...WITH ANY CONVECTION THAT DVLPS ACRS OUR CWA TO BE UNORGANIZED PULSE TYPE STORMS...AND PROBABLY NON-SEVERE. SHRTWV APRCHG FROM GRTLKS LATER TONITE WL RESULT IN CHC MORE SHWRS/TSTRMS LATER TONITE. THIS SHRTWV WL MOVE ACRS FA FRI AM. AMT OF PCPN/CLD CVR WITH THIS DISTURBANCE WL GO A LONG WAY IN DETERMING WHAT TYPE OF WX WE SEE FRI PM...AS CDFNT AND MUCH STRONGER SHRTWV MOVE ACRS FA DURING PM/EVENING HRS. CLDS/SHWRS DURING MORNING LIKELY TO INHIBIT INSTABILITY. HAVE OPTED NOT TO CARRY ANY STRONGER WORDING IN ZONES FOR THNDSTRMS FRI WITH THIS PACKAGE...BASED ON LACK OF INSTABILITY. WITH GOOD DYNAMICS AND STG WIND FIELD THOUGH...SHUD WE SEE SUNSHINE...THNDSTRMS WOULD HAVE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WNDS. GREATER CHC FOR SVR APPEARS TO BE SOUTH OF OUR CWA. MOST OF ACTIVITY WL BE EXITING FA EARLY FRI NITE. NOTICEABLY DRIER AIR RETURNS FRI NITE ALLOWING FOR CLRNG SKIES. BREEZY AND DRY WX EXPECTED SATURDAY. SECONDARY CDFNT DROPS THRU FA SAT NITE RESULTING IN CHC SHWRS. HIGH PRESSURE BLDS IN FOR SUNDAY...ALLOWING FOR SUNSHINE AND TEMPS A BIT BLO NORMAL. EXTENDED: MRF HINTED THAT PCPN WOULD RETURN BY MONDAY. HOWEVER... 12Z AVN HAS BACKED OFF ON THIS SYSTEM. HAVE STAYED WITH PREVIOUS THINKING OF CHC SHWRS FOR MON NITE/TUES. HIGH PRES ALLOWS FOR DRY DAY WED. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APRCHS BY THURS WITH CHC SHWRS ONCE AGAIN. .BTV...NONE. RJS
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:49 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Flood in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 30 to 31, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, May 30, 2002
More
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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: 5300003.