Heavy Rain, Arecibo
- When
- August 7, 2:00 PM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arecibo County, Utuado
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 7, 1998
A small stream went out of its banks covering a bridge.
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 small stream went out of its banks covering a bridge.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Flood in Georgia, August 7 to 14, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, August 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nevada, August 7, 1998
- Hail in Arizona, August 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 7, 1998
- Flood in Kentucky, August 7, 1998
- Flood in Illinois, August 7, 1998
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 7, 1998
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 7, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, August 7, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, August 7, 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: 5663934.