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Mesoscale Discussions in Rhode Island, 2016
15 mesoscale discussions in 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest month
- February5 mesoscale discussions
- Busiest day
- July 18, 20163 mesoscale discussions
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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 23, 12:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 7:44 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 8, 6:24 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 8, 12:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 5 hr |
| Feb 15, 6:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:40 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 11:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 84 min |
| Jul 18, 6:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 86 min |
| Aug 6, 2:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 8:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence, Washington | 53 min |
| Sep 11, 10:01 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.