Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2020
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, August 2020
35 weather alerts in August 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 35
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 25, 20206 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 3, 5:18 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 8 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:11 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 36 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:24 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 17 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence | 86 min |
| Aug 4, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 85 min |
| Aug 4, 11:06 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 19 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:35 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | BOX | Kent, Providence, Washington | 3 days |
| Aug 12, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Newport | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 3:24 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Washington | 41 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:21 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Washington | 28 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:13 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Washington | 28 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 22, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Newport | 19 min |
| Aug 23, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Providence | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 2:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 2:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Providence | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Newport, Washington | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Kent | 16 min |
| Aug 25, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Newport, Washington | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 2:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Washington | 5 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 117 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 | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 1 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| High Surf Advisory | 4 |
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.