Flash Flood — Washington, Vermont

2007-07-11 · near East Barre, Washington, Vermont

Event narrative

Routes 302 and 100 in East Barre near Dugout Restaurant flooded. Eventually several roads including Routes 302 and 110 were washed out, taking several vehicles downstream. The Dugout Restaurant and several homes were flooded with significant flood and structural damage.

Wider weather episode

On the afternoon of July 11th...a warm and very moist airmass was draped across Vermont. In addition, a slow moving cold front entered Vermont from west to east during the afternoon. This front promoted the development of numerous tropical-like showers and thunderstorms, that repeatedly generated and moved over the same areas of central and eastern Vermont. Localized heavy rainfall exceeded 3 inches within a two hour time frame with some localized storm totals approaching 6 inches across a very hilly or mountainous terrain, which resulted in flash flooding of several communities. The hardest impacted areas included Barre, Randolph, Bethel, Hardwick, Craftsbury and Stockbridge...with washed out roads, flooded basements and homes damaged or destroyed.

A Presidential Federal Flood Disaster was declared in Washington, Windsor, Orange, Orleans and Caledonia counties with a estimated storm damage total in excess of 3 million dollars.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 52680. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.