Flash Flood, San Juan
- When
- January 7, 12:30 AM AST to 6:30 AM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, San Juan
- Property damage
- $10,000
Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, January 7, 1998
The remnants of a cold front produced heavy rains across parts of the San Juan metropolitan area and over the north sections of Puerto Rico. Civil Defense reported flooding in Ocean Park and Punta las Marias in San Juan and in Dorado and Toa Baja.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
The remnants of a cold front produced heavy rains across parts of the San Juan metropolitan area and over the north sections of Puerto Rico. Civil Defense reported flooding in Ocean Park and Punta las Marias in San Juan and in Dorado and Toa Baja. The San Juan Star newspaper reported that the heavy rains damaged underground power lines in Condado and Miramar where 4000 residences were without electric power.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, San Juan
- When
- January 7, 12:30 AM AST to 6:30 AM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, Toa Baja
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
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, January 7, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in South Carolina, January 7 to 8, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Carolina, January 7 to 9, 1998
- Ice Storm in New Hampshire, January 7 to 9, 1998
- Flash Flood in Alabama, January 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, January 7, 1998
- Flood in Louisiana, January 7, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, January 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Virginia, January 7 to 8, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5631839, 5631840.