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Strong Wind in Newport, Rhode Island

Strong Wind November 15, 2020 · Newport, Rhode Island

55 mph
Estimated gust (48 kt)
$500
Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Middletown at 850 PM EST, a tree was down on Third Beach Road. At 1033 PM EST, the ASOS at the Newport Airport recorded a gust to 51 mph.

The wider storm

A warm front moved through southern New England in the evening, followed by strong to damaging wind gusts. A cold front then moved through late in the evening, accompanied by a fine line of thunderstorms, which also produced some damaging winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 925524. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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