Alert archive / Puerto Rico / Flash Flood Watches in 2009

Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS JSJ

September 21, 2009

NWS JSJ issued this flash flood watch at Sep 21, 2009, 3:07 AM CDT. It took effect at Sep 21, 2009, 3:18 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 2009, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 21, 2009, 3:18 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 21, 2009, 5:58 PM CDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS JSJ
Flood severity
None

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS JSJ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 20, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 20, 4:15 AM CDT, 22 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN
ISLANDS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
515 AM AST SUN SEP 20 2009

AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-211000-
SAN JUAN AND VICINITY-NORTHEAST-SOUTHEAST-EASTERN INTERIOR-
NORTH CENTRAL-CENTRAL INTERIOR-PONCE AND VICINITY-NORTHWEST-
WESTERN INTERIOR-MAYAGUEZ AND VICINITY-SOUTHWEST-CULEBRA-VIEQUES-
THE NEARSHORE AND OFF SHORE ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS-
515 AM AST SUN SEP 20 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE
ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN TODAY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE
CENTRAL AND WESTERN INTERIOR...WEST...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL
SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH NO WIDESPREAD
FLOODING IS EXPECTED...A FEW LOCATIONS WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH
RAINFALL TO RESULT IN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING...WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLASH OR RIVER FLOODING...PARTICULARLY
ALONG THE RIO CULEBRINAS AND RIO GRANDE DE ARECIBO AND THEIR
TRIBUTARIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-211000-
ST. THOMAS ST. JOHN ADJACENT ISLANDS-ST CROIX-
NEARSHORE ATLANTIC AND ADJACENT CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS-
515 AM AST SUN SEP 20 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND
THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS JSJ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 10:49 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningJSJ116 min
Sep 21, 11:09 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Sep 21, 12:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ5 hr
Sep 21, 1:10 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Sep 21, 1:49 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Sep 21, 2:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.