Hail, Western Interior
- When
- August 16, 4:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Interior County, San Sebastian
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Hail in Puerto Rico, August 16, 2000
75 inches and strong winds. These winds knocked down trees branches damaging electrical cables.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 reported hail between 0.50 and 0.75 inches and strong winds. These winds knocked down trees branches damaging electrical cables.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, August 16, 2000
- Tornado in Connecticut, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 16, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 16, 2000
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 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: 5157161.