Flash Flood, Guayama Salinas
- When
- February 1, 9:45 AM AST to 12:30 PM AST
- Where
- Guayama Salinas County, Guayama
Civil Defense reported flash flooding in the Guayama municipality.
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, February 1, 1997
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Texas, February 1 to 28, 1997
- Drought in West Virginia, February 1 to 28, 1997
- Flooding in Illinois, February 1 to 8, 1997
- High Wind in Wyoming, February 1, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, February 1 to 3, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, February 1, 1997
- Flood in Indiana, February 1 to 3, 1997
- Flood in Illinois, February 1 to 8, 1997
- Flood in Illinois, February 1 to 9, 1997
- Flood in Montana, February 1, 1997
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, February 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: 5605385.