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Mesoscale Discussions in Rhode Island, 2023
15 mesoscale discussions in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest month
- July10 mesoscale discussions
- Busiest day
- July 27, 20233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 6:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 12:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 113 min |
| Jul 16, 10:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence | 95 min |
| Jul 16, 1:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence, Washington | 89 min |
| Jul 25, 6:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Providence, Washington | 119 min |
| Jul 27, 11:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Providence | 115 min |
| Jul 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 85 min |
| Jul 27, 6:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 83 min |
| Jul 29, 11:33 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 117 min |
| Jul 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 7:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 92 min |
| Aug 18, 9:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol | 67 min |
| Sep 13, 11:14 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 2 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 90 min |
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.