Waterspout, Culebra
- When
- February 20, 12:08 PM AST to 1:00 PM AST
- Where
- Culebra County, Culebra
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, February 20, 1996
A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED BY A PILOT ONE AND A HALF MILES WEST OF CULEBRA, PUERTO RICO.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED BY A PILOT ONE AND A HALF MILES WEST OF CULEBRA, PUERTO RICO.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 20 to 21, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, February 20 to 23, 1996
- Dense Fog in Indiana, February 20, 1996
- Strong Wind in Arizona, February 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, February 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 20 to 22, 1996
- High Wind in Oregon, February 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Rain in California, February 20, 1996
- High Wind in California, February 20 to 21, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, February 20, 1996
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, February 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5566790.