A strong low pressure system moved through the eastern Great Lakes and into southern Canada Thursday morning, November 13th. Strong winds preceded and followed the passage of the storm system, with scattered power outages reported across Franklin county.
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The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
A strong low pressure system moved through the eastern Great Lakes and into southern Canada Thursday morning, November 13th. Strong winds preceded and followed the passage of the storm system, with scattered power outages reported across Franklin county. In particular, early morning winds uprooted a few trees in Fletcher, Vt.
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 Nov 12, 10:04 PM EST, 6 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1004 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003 .UPDATE... RADAR LOOP SHOWING SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE SAINT LAWRENCE VLY ATTM. THIS COVERED IN THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. FURTHER EAST...CLEAR SKIES OVER EASTERN VERMONT EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS LED TO SOME AREAS OF DENSE FOG FORMING ACROSS THE CONNECTICUT VLY AND NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST VERMONT. WILL UPDATE THE ZONE FORECASTS TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. WILL ALSO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE OVERNIGHT MIN TEMPERATURES AS WELL...AS AREAS OVER EASTERN VERMONT ARE NOW COOLER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST. HAVE RAISED MIN TEMPS ACROSS THE ST LAWRENCE VLY AND THE ADIRONDACKS OVERNIGHT. ALSO...MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO WIND FORECAST AS WELL. OTHERWISE...NO CHANGES TO THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST. && .SHORT TERM... DRY SLOT MOVES IN THURSDAY MORNING...SO PRECIPITATION WILL BE SCATTERED IN NATURE. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE EARLY IN THE PERIOD AND THEN AS COLD AIR ADVECTION BEGINS...TEMPERATURES WILL BE FALLING IN THE AFTERNOON. THUS ANY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. GOING FORECAST HAS AN EXCELLENT HANDLE ON THIS. STEEP LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL DEVELOP BY AFTERNOON AND THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR SUFFICIENT MIXING. AS A RESULT...BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED BUT THE POTENTIAL DOES EXIST FOR EVEN STRONGER WINDS. SO IT MAKES SENSE TO FOLLOW SURROUNDING OFFICES AND GO WITH A HIGH WIND WATCH. SOUTHERN AREAS MAY BE IMPACTED MORE BY THE SOUTHWEST FLOW IN THE AFTERNOON ON THURSDAY AND THEN FROM THE NORTHWEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN AREAS THURSDAY NIGHT. EITHER WAY WITH THE DEEPENING LOW TO THE NORTH... STEEP LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES...AND STRONGER WINDS IN THE LOW LEVELS POINT TO A STRONG WIND EVENT. NEXT SITUATION IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT UPSLOPE PRECIPITATION OVER PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. UTILIZING AWIPS VISUALIZATION OF THE LOCAL RESEARCH DONE FOR THE LAST CSTAR PROJECT...PARAMETERS APPEAR TO BE IN PLACE FOR THIS POTENTIAL. CLOSED UPPER LOW WILL BE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE AREA CREATING A NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE AREA. WIND SPEEDS IN THE LOW LEVELS... GREATER THAN 30 KNOTS AT 850 MB AND GREATER THAN 20 KNOTS AT 925 MB...WILL BE PERPENDICULAR TO THE MOUNTAINS TO ENHANCE THE UPSLOPE POTENTIAL. AIR MASS WILL BE SATURATED FROM THE SURFACE TO THE RIDGETOPS WITH STEEP LAPSE RATES IN THIS LAYER AS WELL. DELTA THETA-E IN THIS LAYER ALSO SUPPORTS AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL EXIST BEGINNING FROM 21Z THURSDAY TO ABOUT 15Z FRIDAY...THUS MEETING THE NECESSARY 12 HOUR TIME FRAME. AS A RESULT...WILL ISSUE A WINTER STORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN ADIRONDACKS AND FOR AREAS IN AND AROUND THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GREEN MOUNTAINS. WATCH WILL GO FROM THURSDAY NIGHT UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY ON FRIDAY. WARM AIR ADVECTION BEGINS AROUND MID-MORNING ON FRIDAY AND VERTICAL DEPTH OF MOISTURE DECREASES AFTER THIS POINT AS WELL...SO ANY SIGNIFICANT UPSLOPE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BEGIN TO COME TO AN END. THANKS TO GYX...ALY...AND BUF FOR EXCELLENT PHONE COORDINATION ON UP && .LONG TERM... HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN CONTS TO DEVELOP ACRS CONUS WITH MID/UPPER LVL TROF OVER GREAT LAKES AND RIDGE ALONG THE WEST COAST. STRONG SFC FRNT PUSHES ACRS CWA ON SUNDAY WITH WEAK WAVE DEVELOPING ALONG FRNT. LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO WEDS SYSTEM. GIVEN...GOOD ULVL DIVERGENCE FROM 25H JET...7H FG...AND MOISTURE PROGS WL INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY. FRNT MAY HANG UP ACRS EASTERN ZNS AS ULVL LVL TROF BECOMES NEGATIVELY TILTED AND FRNT PARALLEL ULVL FLOW. WL MENTION CHC POPS INTO SUNDAY NITE ATTM. OTHERWISE...WEAK SFC RIDGE BUILDS INTO FA MONDAY WITH ANOTHER FRNT APPROACHING SOUTHERN CANADA BY LATE MONDAY. WL REMOVE POPS MONDAY BASED ON LIMITED MID LVL MOISTURE AND SFC FEATURES. CAA BEHIND FRNT ON SUNDAY DROPS 85H TEMPS FROM NEAR 10C ON SUNDAY TO NEAR 2C BY MONDAY. HOWEVER...WITH CLOUDS/PRECIP AROUND SUNDAY EXPECT TEMPS TO BE U50S MTNS TO M60S VALLEYS WITH SIMILAR TEMPS MONDAY. TUESDAY...FRNT ACRS SOUTHERN CANADA MOVES ACRS CWA. THIS COMBINED WITH DEVELOPING COLD POOL ALOFT AND 5H ENERGY WL KEEP FA UNSETTLED....THEREFORE WL CONT TO MENTION CHC POPS. 85H TEMPS DROP TO NEAR 0C...WHILE 5H TEMPS ARE PROGGED TO BE NEAR -26C BY WEDS 00Z. EXPECT PLENTY OF DIURNALLY DRIVEN CU TO FORM BOTH TUESDAY AND WEDS WITH TEMPS BELOW NORMAL. && .BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VT...HIGH WIND WATCH THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY ZONES 001>012-016>019. WINTER STORM WATCH THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON FRIDAY ZONES 003-006-008-016>018. NY...HIGH WIND WATCH THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY ZONES 026>031-034-035-087. WINTER STORM WATCH THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON FRIDAY ZONES 029>031-034. && SHORT TERM...WGH LONG TERM....TABER
NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-131130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 429 AM EST THU NOV 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VERMONT AS WELL AS NORTHERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE...WHICH MAY DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...CAUSING SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. IN ADDITION...AS MOISTURE WRAPS AROUND THE SYSTEM THIS EVENING... NUMEROUS SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION. A GENERAL DUSTING TO TWO INCH SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER... FAVORED AREAS ALONG THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SLOPES OF THE GREEN AND ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS WILL RECEIVE HEAVIER ACCUMULATIONS. AS A RESULT WINTER STORM WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR THESE REGIONS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY ANY REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE OR SNOWFALL REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY AND TONIGHT. JMG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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