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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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By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 6:06 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington6 hr
Mar 7, 1:25 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington6 hr
Mar 13, 7:08 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington6 hr
Mar 13, 1:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Providence3 hr
Mar 21, 8:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington6 hr
Apr 2, 3:47 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNewport, Washington6 hr
May 4, 5:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProvidence83 min
May 15, 1:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington2 hr
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProvidence2 hr
Jul 17, 10:35 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProvidence115 min
Jul 17, 2:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Providence86 min
Jul 27, 7:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Providence54 min
Aug 4, 9:53 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Providence37 min
Aug 18, 12:11 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington2 hr
Oct 23, 3:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Newport66 min
Oct 29, 8:39 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport3 hr
Nov 15, 4:39 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington6 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.

Nearby

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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.