Hail, Windsor
- When
- June 8, 4:27 PM EST
- Where
- Windsor County, Gassetts
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.333, -72.600
Hail in Vermont, June 8, 2005
A frontal boundary across southern New England moved slowly north and acted to focus thunderstorm development across southern Vermont. A few storms became severe in Windsor county, with up to nickle size hail reported in both the towns of Chester and Gassetts.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 across southern New England moved slowly north and acted to focus thunderstorm development across southern Vermont. A few storms became severe in Windsor county, with up to nickle size hail reported in both the towns of Chester and Gassetts.
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 8, 3:20 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:20 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 420 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... CDFNT WHICH DROPPED JUST SOUTH OF FA EARLIER TDY HAS BECOME STATIONARY. GREATEST INSTABILITY REMAINS ALG AND SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY. CONVECTION WHICH DEVLOPED VCNYT LAKE ONTARIO HAS STRENGTHENED WHILE MOVG ESE ALG THE BOUNDARY INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS. GREATEST TSRA THREAT WILL BE OVER SC VT THIS EVENING...WHERE MARGINALLY SVR STORMS PSBL. FRONT RMNS QUASI-STATIONARY OVRNGHT AND THEN SLOWLY LIFTS NORTH THURS THRU SAT WHILE BERMUDA HIGH DEVELOPS OVER WRN ATLC. INCREASINGLY WARM AND HUMID AIR FILTERS INTO FA. THERE WILL BE A CHC SHWRS/THNDSTRMS EACH DAY...PRIMARILY DURING PM/EVEN HRS EACH DAY. THREAT OF SVR APPEARS MINIMAL DURING THIS PERIOD (INSTABILTY INDICATED BY NAM ON THURS APPEARS OVERDONE). PWS INCREASING TO AROUND 1.75 INCHES DURING THIS PERIOD...SO THERE IS POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HVY RAIN IN ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS. H8 TEMPS WOULD INDICATE THAT MAX TEMPS MAY NEAR 90...BUT WITH SUCH A MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE...AMT OF CLOUD COVER WILL LIKELY RESULT IN MAXS IN 80S. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... FRONTAL SYS TO AFFECT THE FA FOR MUCH OF SUN THRU MON...WITH A MORE SIGNIFICANT CF TO AFFECT THE FA ON NEXT TUE THRU WED. BASICALLY...SOME DIURNAL CONVECTION POSSIBLE ACRS THE FA ON SUN THRU MON...THEN A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHC OF CONVECTION ON TUE THRU WED. CHC POPS SHOULD DO IT THOUGH. HAVE DEVIATED SLIGHTLY UPWARD (WARMER) THAN CURRENT HPC TEMP GUIDANCE AND OUR PREVIOUS FCST IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD. && .AVIATION... A FEW SHRA/TSRA TO MOVE ACRS MUCH OF THE FA INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. SCT-BKN CLDS EXPECTED OTRW ACRS THE FA THRU AT LEAST EARLY ON THU. KSLK TO HAVE TO THE BEST CHC TO DECOUPLE OVRNITE TONITE (WITH MAYBE SOME HZ/BR AS WELL?)...WITH KMPV/KMSS A CLOSE SECOND. NORTHERLY SFC FLOW TO BECOME SOUTHERLY BY THE DAYLIGHT HRS OF THU. && .BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VT...NONE. NY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RJS LONG TERM...MURRAY AVIATION...MURRAY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:11 AM EST, 13 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 411 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-090810- 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 411 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN NEW YORK AS WELL AS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY: A SURFACE WARM FRONT LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE WILL PUSH TOWARD THE NORTH COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...A STRONG DISTURBANCE IN THE WINDS ALOFT OVER THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES WILL MOVE ALONG THIS FRONT INTO CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO SOUTHERN VERMONT BY EVENING. AS THIS ENERGY INTERACTS WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VERMONT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FIRST DEVELOP ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN BY 4PM AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VERMONT BY THIS EVENING...WHERE THE LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY WILL BE THE GREATEST. THIS COMBINED WITH A FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE WILL ENHANCE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS ESSEX COUNTY NEW YORK INTO ADDISON...RUTLAND...AND WINDSOR COUNTIES OF VERMONT BY THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE TIME PERIOD. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THROUGH THIS EVENING. TABER
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Windsor
- When
- June 8, 4:35 PM EST
- Where
- Windsor County, Chester
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.267, -72.600
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Kansas, June 8 to 9, 2005
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- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Iowa, June 8, 2005
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 8, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 8, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, June 8 to 9, 2005
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 8, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 8, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 8, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 8, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 8, 2005
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: 5460913, 5460912.