Tornado, Providence
- When
- August 16, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Providence County, Foster
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.850, -71.767
Brief weak tornado
Tornado and Hail in Rhode Island, August 16, 2000
A weak tornado briefly touched down in a high elevation portion of North Foster. The location was on East Killingly Road, about 2 miles east of the Connecticut state line, at an elevation of 670 feet.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
A weak tornado briefly touched down in a high elevation portion of North Foster. The location was on East Killingly Road, about 2 miles east of the Connecticut state line, at an elevation of 670 feet. The damage was isolated, with a large part of a tall pine tree snapped off near the top, and large branches near one foot in diameter taken down. Large limbs were broken off an oak tree adjacent to the pine. An apple tree was downed, and a six-foot wooden table was overturned. Aside from this, there was no damage evident anywhere else in the vicinity.Based upon the damage observed, the tornado was rated an F0, with wind speeds of 40 to 72 mph. The path length was only 0.2 mile and the width was 15 yards. The funnel was observed moving from southwest to northeast.Also that afternoon, another severe thunderstorm dropped dime size hail in Coventry.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kent
- When
- August 16, 2:40 PM EST
- Where
- Kent County, Coventry
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.683, -71.567
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, August 16, 2000
- Tornado in Connecticut, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 16, 2000
More
Every storm in Rhode Island in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Rhode Island, 2000Warnings in Rhode Island, August 2000
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: 5169968, 5169969.