Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2020
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, May 2020
17 weather alerts in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 17
- Warnings
- 3
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20203 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 6, 3:41 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 35 hr |
| May 8, 1:45 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington | 10 hr |
| May 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 34 hr |
| May 9, 3:37 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 27 hr |
| May 9, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Newport, Washington | 57 min |
| May 11, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 23 min |
| May 11, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 49 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 51 min |
| May 12, 1:14 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | BOX | Kent, Providence, Washington | 19 hr |
| May 12, 1:14 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 19 hr |
| May 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Providence | 6 hr |
| May 15, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 41 min |
| May 15, 9:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 66 min |
| May 25, 9:16 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Newport, Washington | 11 hr |
| May 26, 2:21 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington | 18 hr |
| May 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Newport, Washington | 15 hr |
| May 28, 10:13 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Newport, Washington | 14 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 | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 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.