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Marine High Wind April 19, 2022 · Narragansett Bay, Atlantic North

68 mph

Measured gust (59 kt)

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 449 AM EDT (349 AM EST), a Weatherflow mesonet site at Halfway Rock, south of Prudence Island, recorded a wind gust to 68 mph. At 418 AM EDT (318 AM EST) at Borden Flats Light, a NOS-PORTS station recorded a gust to 58 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 Quonset Point (41.5640, -71.3320).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1009882. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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