Funnel Cloud, Fajardo Rio Grande
- When
- August 8, 5:00 PM AST to 5:15 PM AST
- Where
- Fajardo Rio Grande County, Fajardo
Funnel Cloud in Puerto Rico, August 8, 1997
A pilot reported a funnel cloud one mile north of Palomino Island.
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 pilot reported a funnel cloud one mile north of Palomino Island.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, August 8 to 16, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nevada, August 8, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 8, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 8, 1997
- Funnel Clouds and Waterspout in Texas, August 8 to 29, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 8, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 8, 1997
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in Texas, August 8 to 9, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 8, 1997
- Heavy Rain in Texas, August 8 to 9, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, August 8, 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: 5622052.