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Tropical Storm in Bristol, Rhode Island

Tropical Storm August 22, 2021 · Bristol, Rhode Island

$200K
Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

According to the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency, approximately 18-20 homes were damaged due to falling trees.

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 979818. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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