Flash Flood, Ponce
- When
- July 16, 4:50 PM AST to 7:50 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce County, North Portion
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, July 16, 1998
Strong thunderstorms produce flash flooding and hail over parts of Adjuntas and Jayuya. Rio Grande de Arecibo river went out of its banks over Adjuntas affecting a small 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.
Strong thunderstorms produce flash flooding and hail over parts of Adjuntas and Jayuya. Rio Grande de Arecibo river went out of its banks over Adjuntas affecting a small bridge.
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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- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 16, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 16, 1998
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 16, 1998
- Flash Flood in Vermont, July 16, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 16, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 16, 1998
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, July 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: 5661840.