Alert archive / Puerto Rico / Flash Flood Warnings

Flash Flood Warnings in Puerto Rico, 2025

87 flash flood warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Flash Flood Warnings
87
Busiest month
May42 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
May 3, 202513 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

49 of 87 flash flood warnings covering Puerto Rico in 2025 had a flash flood report inside them; 112 of 223 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 54 minutes after it went out.

Puerto Rico, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings874944%22350%54 min

Each office's whole area, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS JSJ: flash flood warnings935046%22751%52 min

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 8:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Mar 14, 1:06 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ2 hr
Mar 14, 11:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Mar 22, 12:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 19, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 26, 3:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 27, 4:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ112 min
Apr 27, 5:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ4 hr
Apr 27, 7:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 27, 7:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 28, 11:38 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
Apr 28, 12:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 29, 2:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 29, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 29, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
Apr 29, 8:29 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
Apr 29, 9:04 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ116 min
Apr 29, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ90 min
Apr 30, 12:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 30, 12:33 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ4 hr
Apr 30, 12:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 30, 2:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Apr 30, 2:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
May 1, 12:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 1, 1:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
May 1, 1:56 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ4 hr
May 1, 2:49 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
May 2, 12:29 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ6 hr
May 2, 12:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 2, 1:00 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ5 hr
May 2, 1:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 2, 1:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 2, 3:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 2, 3:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ109 min
May 2, 3:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ69 min
May 2, 11:48 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ2 hr
May 3, 12:55 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
May 3, 4:31 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
May 3, 5:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ110 min
May 3, 6:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 12:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 1:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 2:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 2:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 3:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 3:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 6:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 3, 6:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 4, 12:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 4, 12:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 4, 12:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 4, 12:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 4, 2:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ92 min
May 5, 12:58 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
May 5, 1:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 5, 1:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 7, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 8, 3:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ96 min
May 9, 2:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ81 min
May 11, 2:24 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ96 min
May 11, 2:52 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ87 min
May 17, 12:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
May 18, 1:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
May 18, 1:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
May 20, 3:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
Jun 22, 1:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
Jul 16, 2:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Jul 20, 12:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Aug 10, 12:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ4 hr
Aug 16, 6:59 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ4 hr
Aug 16, 7:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ4 hr
Aug 17, 7:43 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ4 hr
Aug 17, 10:49 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
Sep 2, 1:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ95 min
Sep 2, 1:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
Sep 2, 1:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Sep 8, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ87 min
Sep 9, 2:52 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ113 min
Sep 13, 4:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ46 min
Sep 19, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ103 min
Sep 22, 12:43 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ102 min
Sep 25, 7:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Oct 7, 2:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ75 min
Oct 23, 10:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ83 min
Oct 24, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ2 hr
Dec 24, 8:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJSJ109 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

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.