Flood in Puerto Rico, June 3, 1997

Name: Flood in Puerto Rico, June 3, 1997
Start: 1997-06-03T14:30
End: 1997-06-03T16:30
Location: Puerto Rico

June 3, 1997 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
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.

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Humacao

When: June 3, 2:30 PM AST to 4:30 PM AST
Where: Humacao County, Naguabo
Property damage: $1,000

Civil Defense reported that highway 31 was reported impassable near Naguabo. A house in the Maizales sector of Naguabo was flooded when a nearby creek went out of its banks. Rivers Rio Blanco and Rio Santiago were reported swollen.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Puerto Rico, June 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: 5622210.