Weather alerts in Rhode Island, May 2018

12 weather alerts in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 12
Warnings: 2
Watches: 1
Advisories: 5
Busiest day: May 15, 20186 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 4, 5:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Providence	83 min
May 8, 1:56 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Newport, Washington	8 hr
May 8, 3:36 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	18 hr
May 15, 1:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	2 hr
May 15, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	5 hr
May 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Providence	59 min
May 15, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Kent, Providence	27 min
May 15, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Kent, Newport, Washington	35 min
May 15, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Newport	61 min
May 19, 7:27 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington	7 hr
May 29, 9:38 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington	8 hr
May 31, 2:23 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Newport, Washington	9 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
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	2
Special Weather Statement	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	5

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.