Heavy Rain, Arecibo
- When
- August 14, 2:35 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arecibo County, Utuado
- Property damage
- $5,000
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 14, 1997
Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rains in the municipality of Utuado. Civil Defense reported around four inches of rainfall which caused ten lanslides and two creeks to overflow.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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.
Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rains in the municipality of Utuado. Civil Defense reported around four inches of rainfall which caused ten lanslides and two creeks to overflow. One house was reported flooded, and fifteen families were isolated at Barrio Paso Palmas due to a lanslide.
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.
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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: 5622062.