Alert archive / Rhode Island

Weather alerts in Washington County, Rhode Island

2,720 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Washington County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,720
Warnings
581
Watches
466
Advisories
1,063
Busiest year
2018167 alerts
Average year
70over 39 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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 14, 5:18 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningBOX9 hr
Sep 13, 10:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Aug 13, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX32 min
Aug 4, 6:45 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningBOX4 hr
Aug 3, 8:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX6 hr
Jul 30, 8:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Jul 21, 7:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX93 min
Jul 4, 9:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX52 min
Jul 4, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBOX61 min
Jun 30, 1:38 AM EDTExtreme Heat WarningBOX4 days
Jun 23, 3:20 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOX2 hr
Mar 16, 11:45 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningBOX55 hr

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.