An upper level disturbance moved across the Champlain Valley in a relatively unstable air mass. Despite numerous scattered thunderstorms, there was only one storm that produced localized damaging wind gusts in Pawlet and eventually Chester during the early afternoon of June 17th.
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The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
An upper level disturbance moved across the Champlain Valley in a relatively unstable air mass. Despite numerous scattered thunderstorms, there was only one storm that produced localized damaging wind gusts in Pawlet and eventually Chester during the early afternoon of June 17th.
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 17, 10:28 AM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1128 AM EDT MON JUN 17 2013 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO TUESDAY...MAINLY FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD INTO THE NORTH COUNTRY BRINGING DRY WEATHER FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY SEE DAYTIME MAXIMUMS IN THE MID 60S TO 70S AND NIGHTTIME MINIMUMS IN THE 40S AND 50S. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING/... AS OF 1031 AM EDT MONDAY...ADJUSTED TEMP/DWPT AND SKY GRIDS BASED ON OBS. MOST CLEARING TO OUR SOUTH WHERE BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE FOR THIS AFTN. MODELS SHOWING 2 DISTINCT ROUNDS OF SHOWERS...ONE EARLIER IN THE DAY/EARLY AFTN WITH THE PREFRONTAL TROUGH...WITH SW WINDS SHIFTING MORE W BEHIND IT...THEN ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS WITH THE FRONT LATE IN THE DAY INTO TONIGHT...FURTHER SHIFTING WINDS TO THE NW/N. AFOREMENTIONED CLEARING SKIES AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL HELP INCREASE INSTABILITY TODAY. LIMITING FACTOR OF MIXED LAYER CAPE VALUES OF 400+J/KG...BUT SOME AREAS OVER VT NEARING 800-900J/KG COULD BE OVERDONE BY MODEL GUIDANCE. BEST INSTABILITY LOOKS TO BE SOUTH OF THE AREA. OVER THE NORTH COUNTRY AND AREAS SOUTH...EXPECTING LIFTED INDICES OF -4C TO -6C AND WIND SHEAR...0-1KM AT 15-25KTS AND 0-6KM AT 40-50KTS. THIS SHEAR COMBINED WITH BUFKIT FCST STORM MOTION OF 30-40 KTS COULD RESULT IN A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF A PRE- FRONTAL TROUGH IN THE LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. THESE STRONG STORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...HOWEVER NOT ANTICIPATING MUCH IN THE WAY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THIS SYSTEM. NAM AND GFS SEEM TO BE LACKING IN UPPER JET DYNAMICS/SUPPORT...WITH 250MB JET STREAK ONLY SHOWING UP AROUND WRN NY/PA AROUND 06S...FAR BEHIND THE FRONT. THE MAIN COLD FRONT WILL BE WEAK AS IT PUSHES INTO THE REGION LATE IN THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENING. && .SHORT TERM /8 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 448 AM EDT MONDAY...MONDAY NIGHT WILL SEE CONTINUED SCTD SHOWERS AND TS AS FRONT GRADUALLY PRESSES EASTWARD AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LOW APPROACHES FROM THE NW. MIN TEMPS WILL BE IN THE 50S AGAIN WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS. AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY...SOME SCTD SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE DAY. TEMPS WILL BE A LITTLE COOLER WITH NW FLOW BRINGING IN CAA...WITH MAXES IN THE 60S TO L70S. TUESDAY NIGHT...UPPER TROUGH WILL CONTINUE ITS EWD PROGRESSION WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN AT THE SFC. ANY SHOWERS WILL END...WITH GENERALLY CLEARING SKIES. MIN TEMPS WILL BE IN THE 40S TO NEAR 50. HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE ON WEDNESDAY WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...AND DRY CONDITIONS. MAX TEMPS WILL BE IN THE L60S-L70S. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 405 AM EDT MONDAY...UPPER LEVEL PATTERN IN THE EXTENDED IS RATHER CONSISTENT WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ESSENTIALLY REMAINING OVER THE AREA RIGHT THROUGH THE PERIOD. EXPECTING DRY WEATHER WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY WITH A SLOW WARMING TREND. HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL BY THE END OF THE WEEK...THEN REMAIN SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE WEEKEND DESPITE A BIT MORE CLOUD COVER. LOOKS LIKE THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE WEST TO NORTHWEST OVER THE WEEKEND AND THIS COULD POTENTIALLY ALLOW ANY MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS TO MOVE INTO OUR AREA. THUS GOING FORECAST OF A SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW CHANCE PRECIPITATION PROBABILITIES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. && .AVIATION /16Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... THROUGH 12Z TUESDAY...CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES HAVE IMPROVED BACK INTO THE MVFR AND VFR CATEGORIES...WHICH IS WHERE THEY WILL RESIDE THROUGH ABOUT 00Z. WATCH FOR A COLD FRONT TO SAG SOUTH OUT OF CANADA AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN 17Z AND 00Z. EXPECT SHOWERS TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FRONT AND MOVE QUICKLY FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THIS TIME FRAME. HAVE INCLUDED VARIABLE WIND GUSTS IN THE 20 TO 30 KNOT RANGE WITH ANY OF THE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. MVFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL BE THE RULE WITH ANY OF THE SHOWERS OR STORMS. FRONT MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA BY 00Z AND PRECIPITATION WILL COME TO AN END. VISIBILITIES WILL BE IN THE VFR CATEGORY WITH CEILINGS RANGING LINGERING EARLY IN THE MVFR CATEGORY...BUT IMPROVING INTO THE VFR CATEGORY AFTER 02Z AND REMAINING THERE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. WINDS WILL BE MORE NORTHWEST ONCE THE FRONT PASSES AFTER 00Z. OUTLOOK 12Z TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... 12Z TUESDAY THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY...MAINLY VFR AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION. PATCHY LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING FOG POSSIBLE 06-12Z EACH DAY...WITH MOST POTENTIAL AT KSLK/KMPV. 12Z FRIDAY ONWARD...GENERALLY VFR. WEAK FRONT SAGGING SOUTHWARD TOWARD INTL BORDER MAY SPARK A FEW/WIDELY SCT SHOWERS/STORMS AFTER 18Z AT NORTHERN TERMINALS. && .MARINE... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN WATERS THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME LOCALLY STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT OF ANY STRONGER STORMS SHOULD OCCUR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE LAKE FROM BURLINGTON SOUTHWARD. WINDS ARE ALREADY VEERING TO WEST/SOUTHWESTERLY AND EXPECTED THIS GENERAL TREND TO CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS IN THE 5 TO 15 KNOT RANGE. WAVES MAINLY AROUND 1 FOOT...THOUGH LOCALLY HIGHER TO NEAR 2 FEET WITH A LIGHT CHOP ALONG THE EASTERN SHORE AND IN BAYS WITH A WESTERLY EXPOSURE. && .BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VT...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...KGM/MUCCILLI NEAR TERM...KGM/NEILES SHORT TERM...KGM LONG TERM...EVENSON AVIATION...EVENSON/JMG MARINE...JMG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 455 AM EDT MON JUN 17 2013 NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-180900- 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- 455 AM EDT MON JUN 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN NEW YORK...CENTRAL VERMONT...NORTHEAST VERMONT...NORTHWEST VERMONT AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG...PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
1253 PM EDT MON JUN 17 2013
VTZ009-011-012-018-019-171745-
EASTERN ADDISON VT-EASTERN RUTLAND VT-WESTERN ADDISON VT-
WESTERN RUTLAND VT-WINDSOR VT-
1253 PM EDT MON JUN 17 2013
...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH
RUTLAND...SOUTH CENTRAL ADDISON AND WESTERN WINDSOR COUNTIES...
AT 1247 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR
WEST HAVEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
HYDEVILLE...CASTLETON...CENTER RUTLAND...WEST RUTLAND...RUTLAND...
NORTH CLARENDON...KILLINGTON...GIFFORD WOODS STATE PARK...WEST
BRIDGEWATER...PLYMOUTH...
GET TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 4332 7326 4356 7326 4358 7330 4360 7330
4362 7331 4362 7336 4356 7339 4358 7343
4364 7343 4376 7336 4388 7267 4330 7272
MUCCILLIThe Albany radar (KENX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:34 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few large trees and several large branches down along Route 30 near Pawlet as well as several downed power lines in town, including River road, School and Church streets. A vehicle was damaged by downed tree branches as well.
Large maple tree and several branches blown down in town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, June 2013
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: 454983, 454984.