Flash Flood, San Juan
- When
- January 7, 1:00 AM AST to 5:00 AM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, San Juan
- Property damage
- $10,000
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, January 7, 1997
The remnants of a cold front produced heavy rains across the San Juan metropolitan area. Civil Defense reported flooding in Ocean Park and Punta Las Marias sectors in the San juan metropolitan area and over the municipalities of Dorado and Toa Baja.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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.
The remnants of a cold front produced heavy rains across the San Juan metropolitan area. Civil Defense reported flooding in Ocean Park and Punta Las Marias sectors in the San juan metropolitan area and over the municipalities of Dorado and Toa Baja.
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
- Winter Weather in California, January 7 to 18, 1997
- Cold in Louisiana, January 7, 1997
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, January 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, January 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, January 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: 5623461.