Weather alerts in Newport County, Rhode Island

2,333 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Newport County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 2,333
Warnings: 425
Watches: 420
Advisories: 957
Busiest year: 2018144 alerts
Average year: 69over 34 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	139
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	80
Tornado Watch	8
Mesoscale Discussion	304
Special Weather Statement	134
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	37
Flash Flood Warning	45
Flash Flood Watch	53
Flood Watch	88
Areal Flood Advisory	129
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Snow Squall Warning	9
Winter Storm Warning	46
Blizzard Watch	5
Winter Storm Watch	50
Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	115
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	3
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	34
Cold
Freeze Warning	15
Wind Chill Warning	2
Freeze Watch	8
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	3
Frost Advisory	31
Wind Chill Advisory	7
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	57
High Wind Watch	67
Wind Advisory	274
Fire
Red Flag Warning	32
Fire Weather Watch	25
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	225
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	3
Storm Surge Warning	1
Tropical Storm Warning	11
Hurricane Watch	3
Storm Surge Watch	1
Tropical Storm Watch	10
Hurricane Local Statement	1
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	12
Coastal Flood Watch	14
Coastal Flood Advisory	58
High Surf Advisory	77
Beach Hazards Statement	1
Coastal Flood Statement	46
Rip Current Statement	45

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 13, 10:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	3 hr
Aug 13, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	32 min
Aug 3, 12:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	105 min
Jul 21, 7:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	93 min
Jun 30, 1:38 AM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BOX	4 days
Jun 23, 5:07 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	100 min
Mar 16, 12:11 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	BOX	30 hr
Feb 21, 12:29 PM EST	Blizzard Warning	BOX	55 hr
Jan 23, 12:28 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BOX	3 days
Jan 1, 8:46 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BOX	59 min
Jan 1, 8:28 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BOX	47 min
Jan 1, 7:29 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BOX	61 min

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. Rebuilt daily.