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Marine High Wind April 19, 2022 · Rhode Island Sound, Atlantic North

67 mph

Measured gust (58 kt)

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 4 AM EDT (3 AM EST) a NDBC buoy located 9 nm southeast of Little Compton recorded a wind gust of 67 mph.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Sakonnet Point Light (41.4590, -71.1074).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1009881. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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