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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

401 PM EDT TUE APR 24 2001



...THE FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN VERMONT...

     GRAND ISLE...FRANKLIN...ORLEANS...ESSEX...CHITTENDEN...

     LAMOILLE...CALEDONIA...WASHINGTON...ADDISON...ORANGE...RUTLAND

     AND WINDSOR



IN NEW YORK...

     CLINTON...ESSEX...SOUTHERN ST. LAWRENCE...AND SOUTHERN FRANKLIN



A COLD FRONT BROUGHT COOLER TEMPERATURES TO NORTHERN NEW YORK AND 

VERMONT...SLOWING THE MELT OF THE REMAINING SNOWPACK.  MOST OF THE 

SNOW HAS MELTED AT LOWER ELEVATIONS...AND THE REMAINING SNOW AT THE 

HIGHER ELEVATIONS WILL MAKE LESS OF A CONTRIBUTION TO RIVER FLOWS. 



AREA RIVERS WILL SEE SLIGHT RISES OVERNIGHT...BUT NO NEW FLOODING IS 

EXPECTED.  TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER...AND NO RAINFALL IS EXPECTED 

FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...ALLOWING RIVERS TO SLOWLY RECEDE.  ALTHOUGH 

THE FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...THE HIGH FLOWS OF 

RIVERS FLOWING INTO LAKE CHAMPLAIN WILL KEEP THE LAKE ABOVE FLOOD 

STAGE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. 



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HANSON

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