Tornado, Providence
- When
- August 7, 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Providence County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.920, -71.430
Tornadoes in Rhode Island, August 7, 1986
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 20
- Property damage
- $2.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Providence
- When
- August 7, 3:15 PM EST
- Where
- Providence County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 1,000 yd
- Injuries
- 20 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.770, -71.450
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 7, 1986
- Tornadoes in Maine, August 7, 1986
- Tornado in Massachusetts, August 7, 1986
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 7, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 7, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, August 7, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 7, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 7, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 7, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 7, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 7, 1986
- Hail in Kansas, August 7, 1986
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10117646, 10117647.