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Weather alert: Thunderstorm warning for northeast R.I.

4:00 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 |
Andrea Panciera    Email

If you're in northerneastern Rhode Island, get ready to break out the umbrellas -- again. There's a severe thunderstorm warning on for the area in the next half hour. Here are the details from the National Weather Service:

The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
northeastern Providence County in Rhode Island...
this includes the city of Woonsocket...
extreme southeastern Worcester County in central Massachusetts...
extreme southwestern Norfolk County in eastern Massachusetts...

* until 430 PM EDT

* at 350 PM EDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a
severe thunderstorm capable of producing penny size hail. This
storm was located near Millville...or 6 miles west of Woonsocket...
and moving northeast at 18 mph.

* The severe thunderstorm will be near...
Millville by 400 PM EDT...
Blackstone...Woonsocket and Cumberland by 410 PM EDT...
Bellingham by 425 PM EDT...

Watch live radar of the storm approaching at: projo.com/weather

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