Flood, San Juan
- When
- August 12, 1:00 PM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, Countywide
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Puerto Rico, August 12, 1998
Heavy rains produced urban flooding in parts of San Juan, Bayamon, Guaynabo, Toa Baja. Various streets were reported impassable.
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.
Heavy rains produced urban flooding in parts of San Juan, Bayamon, Guaynabo, Toa Baja. Various streets were reported impassable.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1998
- Wildfire in Idaho, August 12 to 21, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Vermont, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Vermont, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 12, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Tennessee, August 12, 1998
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 12, 1998
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 1998
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: 5663940.