Heavy Rain, Guanajibo
- When
- August 2, 3:40 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Guanajibo County, Hormigueros
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 2, 1997
Thunderstorms produced very heavy rains from Yauco and Maricao westward to Hormigueros.
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.
Thunderstorms produced very heavy rains from Yauco and Maricao westward to Hormigueros.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, August 2 to 31, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 2, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, August 2 to 27, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 2, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, August 2, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, August 2, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 2, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, August 2, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, August 2 to 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 2, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, August 2, 1997
- Cold in Alabama, August 2, 1997
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 1997
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: 5622049.