Heat, Eastern Kent
- When
- July 6, 6:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Eastern Kent forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 41.673, -71.579 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat in Rhode Island, July 6, 1999
F. Green State Airport in West Warwick tied the record high for the date.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
For the second day in a row, temperatures at T.F. Green State Airport in West Warwick tied the record high for the date. The high of 97 degrees equaled the record high for July 6th, which was set in 1911.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, July 6, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, July 6, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 6, 1999
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, July 6 to 7, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, July 6 to 7, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 6, 1999
- Wildfire in California, July 6, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 6, 1999
More
Every storm in Rhode Island in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Rhode Island, July 1999
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5710650.