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Mesoscale Discussions in Rhode Island, 2018
17 mesoscale discussions in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 17
- Busiest month
- March4 mesoscale discussions
- Busiest day
- March 13, 20182 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 4, 6:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:25 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Newport, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 83 min |
| May 15, 1:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 115 min |
| Jul 17, 2:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 86 min |
| Jul 27, 7:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 9:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 12:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Newport | 66 min |
| Oct 29, 8:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:39 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 6 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.