Heavy Rain, Windsor
- When
- June 11, 6:00 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST
- Where
- Windsor County, Cavendish
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.580, -72.586 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Vermont, June 11, 2005
Thunderstorms moved slowly across the county with very heavy rainfall.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Thunderstorms moved slowly across the county with very heavy rainfall.
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 11, 1:03 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:03 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 203 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... MUCH THE SAME CONTINUES WX WISE ACROSS THE AREA DURING MOST OF THE SHORT TERM. FCST AREA CONTINUES TO RESIDE ALONG NW EDGE OF SUBTROPICAL SFC RIDGE IN CONVERGENT MOISTURE PLUME...WITH MID LVL RIDGE AXIS NEARLY OVERHEAD. WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS TO THUS PERSIST ACROSS AREA INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH DAILY CHCS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LACK OF STRONG FORCING MECHANISMS ARGUES THAT CONVECTIVE INITIATION WILL OCCUR ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND HIGHER TRRN WHERE VALLEY/SLOPE WINDS OCCUR. HARD TO PINPOINT EXACT LOCN OF ANY CONVECTION...BUT LIGHT BNDRY LYR WIND REGIME AND COPIOUS...DEEP MOISTURE PROFILES SUGGEST CONTINUED THREAT OF ISOLD TO SCT HVY RAINFALL BENEATH STRONGER CELLS ON ANY GIVEN DAY...MAINLY DURING AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING HOURS. PAST FEW OP RUNS OF GFS NOW SUGGESTING REMNANT VORTICITY/MOISTURE ASSOC WITH TS ARLENE TO AFFECT AREA LATER TUE NT INTO WED. THUS WITH MORE DYNAMIC FORCING... MORE CLOUDS...SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS...AND A BETTER CHC OF PRECIP WILL BE OFFERED DURING THIS TIME FRAME. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... GFS...ENSEMBLES...AND ECMWF IN FAIR AGREEMENT THROUGH THIS EXTENDED PERIOD IN SETTING UP A COLD CORE UPPER LOW OVER THE NORTHEAST ...ALTHOUGH ECMWF NOT AS VIGOROUS IN INTENSITY AND TENDENCY TO CLOSE OFF THE UPPER LOW. COOLDOWN AT THE SURFACE STARTS ON WEDNESDAY... WHEN THE BACKDOOR FRONT MAKES ITS PUSH THROUGH THE REGION. COOLER MARITIME AIR WILL MAKE FOR A NOTICEABLE CHANGE IN TEMP/HUMIDITY. WENT WITH HPC GRIDS FOR TEMPS THRU THE EXTENDED WITHOUT ADJUSTMENT. HIGHS IN 60S, LOWS IN 40S AND 50S WERE COOL ENOUGH. FROM THURSDAY ON THE UPPER LOW MOVES INTO THE AREA...WITH COOL TEMPS CONTINUING. SURFACE FRONT WILL REMAIN WELL SOUTH AND WEST OF AREA. MY THINKING WAS TO KEY POPS ON PROXIMITY TO FRONT...HIGHER IN THE ADIRONDACKS... TAPERING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. GFS80 SHOWS VORT MAXES ROTATING AROUND THE CLOSED LOW FRI/SAT...BUT TIMING IMPOSSIBLE TO RESOLVE THIS FAR OUT. WENT WITH SLGT CHC POPS FRI/SAT...AND WILL HAVE TO REFINE AS TIME GOES ON. LOTS OF CLOUDS WITH HIGH LOW LEVEL RH...AND COLD POOL ALOFT PROVIDING INSTABILITY. && .AVIATION... TODAY SHAPING UP MUCH LIKE PAST FEW DAYS....WITH MOIST AIRMASS REMAINING OVER THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STARTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGIONS...AND EXPECT THESE TO CONTINUE THROUGH 03Z. HAZE CONTINUES TO BE THE MAIN OBSTRUCTION TO VISIBILITY. MVFR/VFR VISIBILITIES EXPECTED THROUGH 03Z...WITH FOG DEVELOPING AFTER 03Z. MSS/BTV WILL HAVE OCCASIONAL IFR VISBILITIES THROUGH 12Z. THE MOUNTAIN SITES WILL HAVE IFR CONDITIONS FROM 03Z TIL 07Z...THEN LOWERING TO LIFR 07Z THROUGH 14Z. CEILINGS SHOULD REMAIN IN VFR/MVFR RANGE...EXCEPT WITH FOG THAT DEVELOPS AT SLK AND MPV. ONCE FOG LIFTS...BY 14Z ALL SITES...5-6SM VISIBILITES IN HAZE AND VFR CEILINGS EXPECTED. && .BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VT...NONE. NY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JMG LONG TERM...GH AVIATION...MB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 4:52 AM EST, 13 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 552 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-120951- CALEDONIA VT-EASTERN ADDISON VT-EASTERN CHITTENDEN VT- EASTERN CLINTON NY-EASTERN ESSEX NY-EASTERN FRANKLIN VT- EASTERN RUTLAND VT-ESSEX VT-GRAND ISLE VT-LAMOILLE VT- NORTHERN FRANKLIN NY-NORTHERN ST. LAWRENCE NY-ORANGE VT-ORLEANS VT- SOUTHEASTERN ST. LAWRENCE NY-SOUTHERN FRANKLIN NY- SOUTHWESTERN ST. LAWRENCE NY-WASHINGTON VT-WESTERN ADDISON VT- WESTERN CHITTENDEN VT-WESTERN CLINTON NY-WESTERN ESSEX NY- WESTERN FRANKLIN VT-WESTERN RUTLAND VT-WINDSOR VT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARRE...BETHEL...BRANDON...BURLINGTON... CANAAN...CANTON...DANBY...ESSEX JUNCTION...FAIR HAVEN...MALONE... MASSENA...MIDDLEBURY...MONTPELIER...MORRISVILLE...NEWCOMB... NEWPORT...OGDENSBURG...PLATTSBURGH...POTSDAM...RANDOLPH...RUTLAND... SARANAC LAKE...SOUTH BURLINGTON...SPRINGFIELD...ST. ALBANS... ST. JOHNSBURY...SWANTON...VERGENNES...WHITE RIVER JUNCTION... WILLSBORO AND WINOOSKI 552 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VERMONT AS WELL AS NORTHERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO EARLY TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING...AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: A WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE INTO TUESDAY. MORE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TO MONITOR FLOODING AND REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS...ALONG WITH ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2005
- Flooding in Kansas, June 11 to 14, 2005
- Tropical Storm in Mississippi, June 11 to 12, 2005
- Strong Wind in Alabama, June 11 to 12, 2005
- Storm Surge in Florida, June 11, 2005
- Flood in Kansas, June 11, 2005
- Rip Current in Georgia, June 11, 2005
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 11, 2005
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 11, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, June 11 to 12, 2005
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, June 2005
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: 5461005.