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Tropical Storm August 22, 2021 · Southeast Providence, Rhode Island

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What the National Weather Service wrote

In North Providence at 1109 AM EST, police reported isolated downed trees across town. At 1136 AM EST, a NOS site at Fox Point recorded a wind gust to 44 mph.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in southwest Rhode Island around noon on August 22nd, then moved slowly northwestward and westward across northern Connecticut and weakened. Henri brought strong wind gusts and flash flooding. The strongest gusts -- to 70 mph -- occurred along the Rhode Island coast. The worst flash flooding occurred in northeast Connecticut.

As the remnants of Henri moved eastward across southern New England on August 23rd, it spawned three tornadoes and a waterspout in MA and also it caused some renewed flooding.

The highest rainfall totals over the two-day period ranged from 5 to 6 inches in Hartford and Tolland Counties in northern Connecticut and in Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties in western Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 979809. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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