High Wind — Newport, Rhode Island

2022-04-19 · Newport, Rhode Island

Event narrative

Winds generally were gusting to 55 to 75 mph in the heavier showers. At Halfway Rock, just south of Prudence Island, a Weatherflow mesonet site measured a gust to 68 mph at 449 AM EDT (349 AM EST). In Jamestown at 448 AM EDT (348 AM EST), fire department officials reported power lines down on North Main Road. In Little Compton at 557 AM EDT (457 AM EST), police reported two oak trees down on wires (street not given). In Newport at 611 AM EDT (511 AM EST), the fire department reported a tree down on Harrison Avenue at Ridge Road. All of the aforementioned reports were relayed by amateur radio operators.

Wider weather episode

A coastal storm moved northward from the mid-Atlantic coast late on the 18th to interior New England during the pre-dawn morning hours on the 19th. Locally heavy rainfall helped bring down damaging wind gusts from a low-level jet across Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1009871. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.