Waterspout, Culebra
- When
- May 3, 12:38 PM AST to 12:53 PM AST
- Where
- Culebra County, Culebra
A pilot reported a waterspout 1 nautical mile north of Culebra.
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, May 3, 1997
1 waterspout, 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 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 3, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 3 to 28, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 3, 1997
- Tornado in Florida, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 3, 1997
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 3, 1997
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 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: 5615470.