Flash Flood Warnings in Puerto Rico, 2022

By month

45 of 84 flash flood warnings covering Puerto Rico in 2022 had a flash flood report inside them; 159 of 360 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 179 minutes after it went out.

Puerto Rico, 2022

Each office's whole area, 2022

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 18, 202215flash flood warnings
2. November 5, 202210flash flood warnings
3. September 19, 20229flash flood warnings
4. February 6, 20228flash flood warnings
5. October 27, 20227flash flood warnings
6. October 26, 20225flash flood warnings
7. February 5, 20223flash flood warnings
8. July 2, 20223flash flood warnings
9. November 7, 20223flash flood warnings
10. July 10, 20222flash flood warnings
11. August 16, 20222flash flood warnings
12. September 7, 20222flash 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.