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Strong Wind in Newport, Rhode Island

Strong Wind October 10, 2019 · Newport, Rhode Island

52 mph

Estimated gust (45 kt)

$500

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Middletown, a large tree was down on Paradise Avenue.

The wider storm

A strong ocean storm well to the south and southeast of Nantucket combined with strong high pressure over the Canadian maritime provinces to create a prolonged period of strong to damaging winds across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The ocean storm was briefly named Subtropical Storm Melissa.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 855354. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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