Tornado, Mayaguez
- When
- September 6, 2:55 PM AST to 2:57 PM AST
- Where
- Mayaguez County, Cabo Rojo
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 6, 1999
Civil Defense indicated that they received calls of a tornado in northern Cabo Rojo for a brief period of time. No damage was reported.
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 that they received calls of a tornado in northern Cabo Rojo for a brief period of time. No damage was reported.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, September 6, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 6, 1999
- Flood in Florida, September 6, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, September 6, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Michigan, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Tornado and Waterspouts in Florida, September 6, 1999
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Puerto Rico, 1999Warnings in Puerto Rico, September 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: 5723497.