A mid-atmospheric disturbance moved across central Vermont during the afternoon of June 8th, which created scattered thunderstorms. One thunderstorm caused destructive winds in Tunbridge (Orange county) that sheared dozens of trees and damaged a barn and grain silo.
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A mid-atmospheric disturbance moved across central Vermont during the afternoon of June 8th, which created scattered thunderstorms. One thunderstorm caused destructive winds in Tunbridge (Orange county) that sheared dozens of trees and damaged a barn and grain silo.
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, 3:12 PM EST, 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 412 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 .SYNOPSIS... HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WORK WEEK AS THE NORTH COUNTRY REMAINS UNDER A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...AS WELL...WITH THE BEST CHANCES COMING TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES AND ACROSS NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND. COOLER AIR AND QUIET WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED ONCE THIS FRONT PASSES THROUGH...BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING/... AS OF 409 PM EDT SUNDAY...THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE CONVECTION OCCURRED TO THE FORECAST AREA/S SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON...POP UP STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING UNTIL DAYTIME HEATING IS LOST AFTER SUNSET. POPS THEN INCREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT AS UPSTREAM CONVECTION RIDES AROUND THE TOP OF THE RIDGE ALOFT. THE MODELS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS WITH BRINGING AN MCS ACROSS SOMEWHERE IN OR NEAR THE FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT/EARLY MONDAY. HOWEVER...GFS AND NAM VARY ON TIMING/LOCATION/INTENSITY OF THIS CONVECTION...AND CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS INDICATE THE MCS LOCATED OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST MAY SLIDE TO OUR SOUTH. THEREFORE...KEPT CHANCE POPS RATHER THAN LIKELY OVERNIGHT...WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBERS IN NORTHWEST ZONES. IT WILL BE ANOTHER MILD...MUGGY NIGHT TONIGHT WITH LOWS IN THE 60S AREAWIDE. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 409 PM EDT SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM...WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AND HIGH DEWPOINTS. MONDAY...PLENTY OF UNSTABLE AIR AGAIN MONDAY AS TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S RESULT IN SB CAPES IN EXCESS OF 1000 J/KG. LIKE TODAY...WIND PROFILES WILL NOT BE TOO IMPRESSIVE...WITH WESTERLY FLOW OF 30 TO 40 KNOTS AT MID LEVELS. SHOULD THE UPSTREAM MCS MAKE IT TO THE FORECAST AREA...THIS COULD POTENTIALLY LEAVE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TO FOCUS CONVECTION. HOWEVER...AS STATED PREVIOUSLY...EXACT TRACK OF MCS IS UNCERTAIN...AND WITH MAIN DYNAMICS REMAINING TO OUR NORTH...MAY HAVE TO DEPEND ON DAYTIME HEATING TO INITIATE CONVECTION. THEREFORE...ONCE AGAIN KEPT JUST CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER...CLOSER TO THE BEST FORCING. MONDAY NIGHT...SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE EAST FROM THE GREAT LAKES AND SLIDE ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA MONDAY NIGHT...WITH THE NORTH COUNTRY REMAINING IN THE WARM SECTOR. THIS SHOULD BE THE WARMEST NIGHT AS DEWPOINTS CLIMB INTO THE MID 60S TO NEAR 70 AS SURFACE WARM FRONT IS PULLED NORTH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FOR THIS PERIOD...THOUGH DEPENDANT ON HOW MUCH ACTIVITY WE GET DURING THE DAY AS THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE BEFORE MIDNIGHT. TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT...BEST CHANCES FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION COMES TUESDAY AS A COLD FRONT TRAVERSES ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON...EVENING...AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S AREAWIDE. THIS...COMBINED WITH PLENTIFUL MOISTURE...WILL RESULT IN PLENTY OF INSTABILITY FOR CONVECTION ALONG THE COLD FRONT AND PREFRONTAL TROUGH. INCREASING WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGGING MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL APPROACH THE AREA BY TUESDAY EVENING...ADDING GOOD SHEAR TO THE MIX. LATER SHIFTS WILL HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE SETUP FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 319 PM EDT SUNDAY...RATHER QUIET PERIOD OF WX WITH MAINLY DRY WX EXPECTED ALONG WITH TEMPS WITHIN SEVERAL DEGREES OF SEASONAL NORMS. CDFNT WILL BE WELL EAST OF FA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING SOUTH AND EAST FROM CANADA. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH LAGGING A BIT HOWEVER...SO EXPECT SOME CLOUDS WED AND MAYBE EVEN A FEW SPRINKLES...MAINLY NE VT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE CENTERED OVER THE REGION THURS/FRI...WHILE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER WRN ATLC. THE RESULT WILL BE FAIR AND DRY WX ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPS AND LESS HUMID CONDITIONS. THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO HOLD INTO SATURDAY AS BLOCKING PATTERN CONTINUES. THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES BTWN MODELS AS TO HOW FAST THE RIDGE WILL BREAK DOWN...WHICH WOULD ALLOW NEXT SYSTEM TO APRCH FROM THE MIDWEST. FOR NOW...HAVE OPTED FOR A MAINLY DRY FCST FOR NEXT WEEKEND...AND GONE WITH POPS NO HIR THAN SLITE CHC...BUT CONFIDENCE IN THIS PORTION OF THE FCST IS LOW. && .AVIATION /20Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... THROUGH 18Z MONDAY...EXPECTING MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS FOR THIS PERIOD. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED SOUTH AND NORTH OF FORECAST AREA EARLY THIS PM...AND MUCH OF IT WILL REMAIN IN THESE AREAS FOR THE REST OF TODAY. WITH VERY WARM AND MARGINALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE HOWEVER...THERE IS POSSIBILITY FOR SCT SHWRS/THNDSTRMS FROM MID PM THRU EARLY THIS EVENING. HAVE CONTD WITH CB FOR CLOUD TYPE IN THE TAFS FOR THIS PM/EVEN...DUE TO SCATTERED NATURE OF THE CONVECTION AND LOW CONFIDENCE THAT TSRA WILL AFFECT ANY ONE TAF SITE. WILL NEED TO MONITOR CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER GRTLKS FOR PSBL IMPACT ON FA FOR OVRNGHT. BEST CHC FOR SEEING SEVERAL HRS OF MVFR CONDITONS IN SHRA AND EMBEDDED TSRA WILL BE ACRS NRN PORTION OF THE AREA BTWN 04Z-13Z MONDAY. 18Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...UNSETTLED WX THRU TUESDAY WITH HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS REMAINING IN PLACE. PREVAILING CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO BE VFR...BUT LOCAL MVFR IN SCT TSRA MONDAY PM/EVEN. MORE NUMEROUS SHWRS/THNDSTRMS WITH OCNL MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TUESDAY PM INTO TUES NITE AS CDFNT MOVES THRU REGION. IMPROVING WEATHER WEDNESDAY THRU FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION WITH VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. && .BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VT...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MB NEAR TERM...MB SHORT TERM...MB LONG TERM...RJS AVIATION...RJS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 459 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-090900- NORTHERN ST. LAWRENCE-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN CLINTON- SOUTHEASTERN ST. LAWRENCE-SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-WESTERN CLINTON- WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-SOUTHWESTERN ST. LAWRENCE-GRAND ISLE- WESTERN FRANKLIN-ORLEANS-ESSEX-WESTERN CHITTENDEN-LAMOILLE-CALEDONIA- WASHINGTON-WESTERN ADDISON-ORANGE-WESTERN RUTLAND-WINDSOR- EASTERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN CHITTENDEN-EASTERN ADDISON-EASTERN RUTLAND- 459 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN NEW YORK...CENTRAL VERMONT...NORTHEAST VERMONT...NORTHWEST VERMONT AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK AS WELL AS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VERMONT THIS AFTERNOON. GIVEN...THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE...A FEW STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF A GOUVERNEUR TO SARANAC LAKE TO BARRE LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE STRONG AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR MORE AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...SOME STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND LOCAL HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR AFTER 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCAL HEAVY RAINFALL. ON TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT...COMBINED WITH A POTENT DISTURBANCE IN THE WINDS ALOFT...WILL INTERACT WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE ANOTHER WIDESPREAD ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. AT THIS TIME...THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK AS WELL AS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VERMONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TABER
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 352 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 VTZ010-012-082045- ORANGE-WINDSOR- INCLUDING...AINSWORTH STATE PARK...BRAINTREE...BROOKFIELD... CHELSEA...CORINTH CORNERS...EAST BRAINTREE...EAST BROOKFIELD...EAST RANDOLPH...ELY...EXIT 14 I91...EXIT 15 I91...EXIT 4 I89...FAIRLEE... NORTH RANDOLPH...NORTH THETFORD...NORTH TUNBRIDGE...POMPANOOSUC... POST MILLS...RANDOLPH CENTER...SOUTH RANDOLPH...SOUTH STRAFFORD... SOUTH TUNBRIDGE...SOUTH VERSHIRE...SOUTH WASHINGTON...STRAFFORD... THETFORD...THETFORD CENTER...THETFORD HILLS STATE PARK...TUNBRIDGE... UNION VILLAGE...VERSHIRE...WEST FAIRLEE AND WEST FAIRLEE CENTER 352 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 AT 348 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST RANDOLPH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 33 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR STRAFFORD...6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERSHIRE BY 410 PM...NEAR WEST FAIRLEE BY 420 PM...NEAR THETFORD AND THETFORD HILLS STATE PARK BY 430 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 MPH OR HIGHER MAY ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORM AS WELL. LAHIFF
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:11 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Damaging thunderstorm winds sheared or knocked down 25 to 30 trees one mile east of Route 14 in Tunbridge. In addition, a barn roof was damaged and a grain silo was overturned and moved 200 feet.
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