Heavy Rain, Coamo Santa Isabel
- When
- August 13, 5:30 PM AST to 9:30 PM AST
- Where
- Coamo Santa Isabel County, Coamo
- Property damage
- $3,000
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 13, 1997
Three houses were flooded in Coamo.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- 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.
Three houses were flooded in Coamo.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Lightning Strike in Utah, August 13, 1997
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 13, 1997
- Flood in Florida, August 13, 1997
- Tornado in New Jersey, August 13, 1997
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 13, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 13 to 14, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, August 13, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 13, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, August 13, 1997
More
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5622059.