Waterspout, Humacao
- When
- September 9, 3:40 PM AST to 3:45 PM AST
- Where
- Humacao County, Ceiba
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, September 9, 1999
An employee from Roosevelt Roads Navy Base sighted a waterspout 8 miles southwest of the base in Ceiba.
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.
An employee from Roosevelt Roads Navy Base sighted a waterspout 8 miles southwest of the base in Ceiba.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, September 9 to 11, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, September 9 to 29, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, September 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 9, 1999
- Lightning Strike in California, September 9, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Maryland, September 9, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Virginia, September 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, September 9, 1999
- Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, September 9, 1999
- Funnel Clouds and Waterspout in Wisconsin, September 9, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, September 9, 1999
- Dust Storm in Nevada, September 9, 1999
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5723594.