Flood, San Juan
- When
- August 22, 2:30 PM AST to 3:30 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, Caguas
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Puerto Rico, August 22, 1999
Civil Defense indicated streams and creeks out of their banks in Caguas. A car was trapped over a rising creek.
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.
Civil Defense indicated streams and creeks out of their banks in Caguas. A car was trapped over a rising creek.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 22, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 22, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, August 22, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 22, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 22 to 23, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 22, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 22, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 22, 1999
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, August 22, 1999
- Waterspout in Florida, August 22, 1999
- Waterspout in Florida, August 22, 1999
- Hail in Georgia, August 22, 1999
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 1999
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: 5719303.