Flash Flood Warnings in Puerto Rico, 2009

By month

12 of 73 flash flood warnings covering Puerto Rico in 2009 had a flash flood report inside them; 27 of 64 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 101 minutes after it went out.

Puerto Rico, 2009

Each office's whole area, 2009

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

1. September 5, 200910flash flood warnings
2. November 16, 20097flash flood warnings
3. December 25, 20094flash flood warnings
4. February 10, 20093flash flood warnings
5. May 8, 20093flash flood warnings
6. May 21, 20093flash flood warnings
7. July 21, 20093flash flood warnings
8. November 15, 20093flash flood warnings
9. March 22, 20092flash flood warnings
10. June 10, 20092flash flood warnings
11. September 20, 20092flash flood warnings
12. October 5, 20092flash flood warnings

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National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.