Tornado, Humacao
- When
- September 8, 4:30 PM AST to 4:31 PM AST
- Where
- Humacao County, Ceiba
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 1 yd
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 8, 1999
A Roosevelt Roads Navy Base personnel reported a waterspout that made a brief landfall and dissipated shortly near the airport base.
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.
A Roosevelt Roads Navy Base personnel reported a waterspout that made a brief landfall and dissipated shortly near the airport base.
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
- Wildfire in California, September 8 to 30, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 8, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, September 8, 1999
- Flood in Florida, September 8, 1999
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, September 8, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New York, September 8, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, September 8, 1999
- Waterspout in Florida, September 8, 1999
- Flood in Virginia, September 8, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, September 8, 1999
- High Wind in Alabama, September 8, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 8, 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: 5723595.