Weather alerts in Rhode Island, May 2017

18 weather alerts in May 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 18
Warnings: 3
Watches: 1
Advisories: 5
Busiest day: May 5, 20177 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 1, 7:34 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Newport, Washington	9 hr
May 3, 4:21 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Kent, Providence	27 hr
May 5, 4:13 AM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	24 hr
May 5, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Kent, Providence, Washington	61 min
May 5, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol	33 min
May 5, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Kent, Providence, Washington	57 min
May 5, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence	44 min
May 5, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Newport	43 min
May 5, 5:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence	2 hr
May 13, 3:46 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Washington	30 hr
May 18, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Providence	25 min
May 19, 12:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Providence	27 min
May 19, 1:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Providence	26 min
May 24, 7:18 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington	6 hr
May 25, 7:44 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Washington	7 hr
May 25, 11:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	53 min
May 26, 3:47 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	10 hr
May 31, 6:08 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	4 hr

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	2
Special Weather Statement	7
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	1
Flood Watch	1
Cold
Frost Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	3
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Statement	2

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.