Waterspout, Humacao
- When
- February 28, 7:17 AM AST to 7:30 AM AST
- Where
- Humacao County, Ceiba
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, February 28, 1998
S. NAVY personnel sighted a waterspout just off the coast of Ceiba.
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 U.S. NAVY personnel sighted a waterspout just off the coast of Ceiba.
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
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Flooding in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Hail in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Heat in New Jersey, February 28, 1998
- Heat in Pennsylvania, February 28, 1998
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 28, 1998
- Hail in Georgia, February 28, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Heat in Maryland, February 28, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, February 28, 1998
- Heat in Delaware, February 28, 1998
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, February 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5631859.