Thunderstorm Wind — Kent, Rhode Island
2018-05-15 · near Arkwright, Kent, Rhode Island
$10K
Property damage
40 EG
Magnitude
Event narrative
At 5:10 PM EST, a tree was reported down on a house on Pin Oak Court in Coventry.
Wider weather episode
A cold front over the Great Lakes moved through Southern New England during the late afternoon and early night of May 15th. The air mass over Rhode Island was very warm and humid, and as the cold front moved into this air it generated numerous thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms moving east from Connecticut produced damaging wind gusts in Western Rhode Island.
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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 748744. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.