Flash Flood, Arecibo
- When
- May 18, 3:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arecibo County, Arecibo
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, May 18, 1998
Daytime heating combined with high moisture content produced very heavy rains across the municipality of Arecibo. About seventy three residences were totally or partially affected due to several canals that overflowed.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- 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.
Daytime heating combined with high moisture content produced very heavy rains across the municipality of Arecibo. About seventy three residences were totally or partially affected due to several canals that overflowed.
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
- Heat in Louisiana, May 18, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 18 to 19, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 18 to 19, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 18 to 19, 1998
- Flooding in South Dakota, May 18 to 31, 1998
- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, May 18 to 19, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, May 18, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, May 18, 1998
- Hail in Michigan, May 18, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, May 18, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 18, 1998
- Heat in Wisconsin, May 18 to 19, 1998
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 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: 5657951.