Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2008
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, May 2008
10 weather alerts in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 10
- Warnings
- 2
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:44 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Newport | 2 hr |
| May 9, 3:55 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Washington | 34 hr |
| May 12, 3:46 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Washington | 32 hr |
| May 13, 12:26 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Kent, Newport | 94 min |
| May 25, 4:33 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Providence | 11 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Providence | 17 hr |
| May 27, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, Providence | 8 hr |
| May 29, 4:46 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Providence | 13 hr |
| May 31, 5:19 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 39 hr |
| May 31, 5:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 26 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 Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Advisory | 1 |
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.