Alert archive / Rhode Island / 2023
Weather alerts in Rhode Island, May 2023
9 weather alerts in May 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 9
- Warnings
- 3
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20233 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 2, 6:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 34 min |
| May 2, 6:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 29 min |
| May 15, 3:58 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 40 hr |
| May 16, 2:29 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 17 hr |
| May 16, 3:26 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | BOX | Providence | 25 hr |
| May 16, 7:45 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 24 hr |
| May 17, 4:23 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 14 hr |
| May 20, 11:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Providence | 87 min |
| May 27, 3:45 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 16 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 | |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Beach Hazards 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.