Flash Flood, Humacao
- When
- May 8, 4:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Humacao County, Rio Grande
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, May 8, 1999
Civil Defence indicated that a river in El Verde sector in Rio Grande went out of its banks due to heavy rainfall flooding adjacent areas.
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 Defence indicated that a river in El Verde sector in Rio Grande went out of its banks due to heavy rainfall flooding adjacent areas.
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
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 8, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 8, 1999
- High Surf in California, May 8 to 9, 1999
- Cold in Oregon, May 8 to 9, 1999
- Flood in Illinois, May 8 to 10, 1999
- Hail in Pennsylvania, May 8, 1999
- Dust Devil in Washington, May 8, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 8, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 8, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 8, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 8, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 8, 1999
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 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: 5698015.