Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2018
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, January 2018
28 weather alerts in January 2018, 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 January 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 28
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 10
- Busiest day
- January 13, 20185 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 3:09 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 25 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:50 PM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 12 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:50 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 39 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:50 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 39 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:46 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 24 hr |
| Jan 4, 6:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 7:14 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 4:02 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 54 hr |
| Jan 5, 8:22 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 14 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:17 PM EST | Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 70 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:58 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 30 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:35 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 33 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:22 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 13 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:06 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 16 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 39 hr |
| Jan 13, 12:06 PM EST | River Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 43 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:46 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Providence | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 5:18 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 31 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:56 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Providence | 35 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 35 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent | 88 min |
| Jan 22, 1:11 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 22 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:08 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 28 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent | 42 min |
| Jan 23, 1:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Washington | 21 min |
| Jan 28, 4:02 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 45 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
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.