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Mesoscale Discussions in Rhode Island, 2025

11 mesoscale discussions in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
11
Busiest month
July6 mesoscale discussions
Busiest day
July 1, 20252 mesoscale discussions

Over time

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
Feb 8, 6:21 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington4 hr
Feb 8, 10:01 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington4 hr
May 3, 3:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProvidence88 min
Jun 6, 12:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Providence119 min
Jul 1, 4:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Providence86 min
Jul 1, 5:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Providence2 hr
Jul 3, 3:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Providence, Washington2 hr
Jul 8, 12:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington2 hr
Jul 20, 7:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington83 min
Jul 25, 1:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington85 min
Sep 6, 3:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProvidence86 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.

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.