Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2008
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, August 2008
24 weather alerts in August 2008, 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 24
- Warnings
- 6
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 8
- Busiest day
- August 11, 20088 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 12:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 88 min |
| Aug 2, 4:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 10:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 116 min |
| Aug 7, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Providence | 8 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 12:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Providence | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 12:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Kent, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Newport | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 15 min |
| Aug 11, 1:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 8 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence, Washington | 119 min |
| Aug 12, 3:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 88 min |
| Aug 15, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 6:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence, Washington | 85 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.