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High Surf in Newport, Rhode Island
High Surf August 6, 2014 · Newport, Rhode Island
What the National Weather Service wrote
A 58 year old Massachusetts man was swept away by high surf while fishing on rocks at Beavertail State Park in Jamestown, RI. His body was recovered from the surf along the rocky shoreline. Tropical Storm Bertha was spinning off the coast of North Carolina, churning up seas and sending them northward, contributing to the high surf along the Rhode Island coast.
The wider storm
A 58 year old man was swept away by high surf while fishing on rocks at Beavertail State Park in Jamestown, RI. Tropical Storm Bertha was spinning off the coast of North Carolina, churning up seas and sending them northward, contributing to the high surf along the Rhode Island coast.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 540247. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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