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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

1105 AM EDT SAT JUN 23 2001



...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VERMONT CONTINUES A 

FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK THROUGH 

TONIGHT...



SPECIFICALLY...THE WATCH INCLUDES THE NEW YORK COUNTIES OF 

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



IN VERMONT THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF GRAND ISLE 

...FRANKLIN...CHITTENDEN...ADDISON...WASHINGTON...LAMOILLE...ORLEANS

...CALEDONIA...ESSEX...ORANGE...RUTLAND AND WINDSOR.



TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL LAST NIGHT ACROSS CLINTON AND ESSEX 

COUNTIES IN NORTHERN NEW YORK WITH ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN THE 

NORTHERN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OF VERMONT.  HOWEVER...LITTLE OR NO 

RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED SOUTH AND EAST OF BURLINGTON.



LATEST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWERS MOVING NORTHEAST 

FROM CENTRAL NEW YORK ACROSS THE ADIRONDACKS.  RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO 

MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS IN NORTHERN NEW YORK BEFORE SHIFTING EAST 

ACROSS VERMONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.     



THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON 

OVER THE SAME AREAS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT.  THIS MAY 

RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW YORK WHERE 

SOIL CONDITIONS ARE SATURATED.  THE FLOOD THREAT WILL INCREASE 

ACROSS VERMONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS THE AXIS OF 

HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NEW YORK SHIFTS EAST.  



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS 

AND OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA.  PEOPLE 

IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY FOR 

HEAVY RAINFALL.  HIKERS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR FLOODING IN 

THE HILLY TERRAIN. 



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