Funnel Cloud, Bayamon
- When
- November 8, 3:00 PM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Bayamon County, San Juan
Funnel Cloud in Puerto Rico, November 8, 1997
A weather service employee reported a funnel cloud a few miles northeast of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan.
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 weather service employee reported a funnel cloud a few miles northeast of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan.
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
More
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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: 5623367.