Flash Flood, Ponce
- When
- April 7, 1:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce County, Northeast Portion
- Property damage
- $50,000
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, April 7, 1998
Heavy rains produced landslides and flash flooding in parts of Villalba, Juana Diaz and Santa Isabel. A river in Juana Diaz and a river is Santa Isabel went out of their banks flooding adjacent areas.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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.
Heavy rains produced landslides and flash flooding in parts of Villalba, Juana Diaz and Santa Isabel. A river in Juana Diaz and a river is Santa Isabel went out of their banks flooding adjacent areas. Several roads were impassable due to flooding.
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
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- Flooding in Iowa, April 7 to 12, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, April 7, 1998
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- Lightning Strike in Colorado, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, April 7, 1998
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: 5652807.