Flash Flood in Rutland County, Vermont

Numerous Streets (West, Merchants Row, West, Washington, Clover, etc.), businesses, homes and vehicles severely flooded in downtown.

A weak surface low developed along a slow moving cold front across the Champlain Valley of Vermont during the late afternoon and evening hours of June 14th. Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed in a very moisture laden atmosphere during the late afternoon and traveled over the same areas along two stationary boundaries during the evening. Localized heavy rainfall up to 7 inches occurred in Ripton (Addison county) and 3 to 5 inches in Rutland (Rutland county).

These heavy rainfall amounts led to flash flooding in a very rural and mountainous community of Ripton with numerous driveway, culvert and road washouts which stranded dozens of residents. Meanwhile, heavy rainfall in Rutland led to urban flash flooding which caused flooded streets as well as flooded numerous basements and first floors of homes and businesses...over 80 businesses and homes were affected.