Weather alerts in Rhode Island, 1996
4 weather alerts in 1996, 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 in 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4
- Warnings
- 4
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- July2 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 13, 19962 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 9:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 12 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 12 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Washington | 34 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19951997
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.