Rip Current, Aguadilla
- When
- April 28, 6:25 AM AST to 6:40 AM AST
- Where
- Aguadilla County, Isabela
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Rip Current in Puerto Rico, April 28, 2000
A young person drowned at Jobos' Beach while practicing the sport of surfing.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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 young person drowned at Jobos' Beach while practicing the sport of surfing.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Aguadilla | 2000-06-28 | 13 | Male | In Water | Direct |
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, April 28, 2000
- High Wind in California, April 28, 2000
- Tornado in Oregon, April 28, 2000
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 28 to 29, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Oregon, April 28 to 29, 2000
- Rip Current and High Surf in American Samoa, April 28 to 30, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, April 28, 2000
- Hail in New Mexico, April 28, 2000
- High Wind in Montana, April 28, 2000
- High Wind in California, April 28, 2000
- High Wind in Nevada, April 28, 2000
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, April 2000
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: 5140638.