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A rare Rhode Island tornado lifted a car off a highway Friday as severe weather swept already storm-weary New England, damaging homes, flooding roads and toppling trees. Tornadoes were reported in ...
How many people lost power because of the storm? As of 10:05 a.m. Rhode Island Energy's outage map showed 179 outages, affecting 8,632 customers. All of the outages appear to be in the northern ...
August 7, 1986: The first multiple-tornado day recorded in Rhode Island history. A weak F1 tornado briefly touched down near Lincoln around 3:30 PM local time. At approximately 4:30pm an F2 tornado destroyed a home at 43 Hillwood St, Providence owned by Lynn Panchuk Price. It stayed on the ground for 4 miles (6 km), injuring 20 people and ...
Damage was reported in North Providence, Johnston and Scituate after the tornado warning.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for northern Rhode Island through 8 p.m. Sunday.. The watch includes northern Providence County and the City of Providence. The watch also ...
Paths of tornadoes in New England, 1950–2006. Tornadoes are fairly uncommon in the US region of New England. Fewer tornadoes are recorded here than anywhere else east of the Rocky Mountains. [1] However, these deadly and destructive storms do occur; on average, about eight tornadoes are reported in the region each year.
At its peak, the tornado was an EF-2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with 115mph winds that left hundreds of trees down. Friday's tornado was the strongest in RI since 1986. Here's where it hit.
List of Rhode Island tornadoes; Tornadoes in New England; F. Four-State Tornado Swarm This page was last edited on 25 January 2011, at 06:04 (UTC). ...