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High Wind in Southeast Providence, Rhode Island

High Wind December 23, 2022 · Southeast Providence, Rhode Island

58 mph
Estimated gust (50 kt)
$1K
Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Providence at 1249 PM, a large tree was down on Wolcott Street near Regent Avenue. Winds generally were gusting to 55 to 60 mph. A gust to 64 mph was recorded a little farther south at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, RI (KPVD) at 310 PM.

The wider storm

Low pressure deepened rapidly as it tracked through the eastern Great Lakes.

The storm produced damaging southeast to south winds across much of southern New England and minor to moderate coastal flooding the east and south coasts. Two to 3.5 inches of rain fell across much of RI and interior MA.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1064430. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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