Weather alerts in Rhode Island
4,628 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4,628
- Warnings
- 1,243
- Watches
- 600
- Advisories
- 1,432
- Busiest year
- 2018273 alerts
- Average year
- 119over 39 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 5:18 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 9 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:09 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 5 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Newport, Washington | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 13 min |
| Aug 7, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Newport | 105 min |
| Aug 3, 8:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 30, 8:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 7:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Newport, Washington | 93 min |
| Jul 4, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Washington | 52 min |
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.