Tornado, Western Interior
- When
- August 25, 6:00 PM AST to 6:15 PM AST
- Where
- Western Interior County, Adjuntas
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 25, 2000
Residents in Adjuntas reported a small tornado. Some trees were knocked down and some furniture were thrown around.
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.
Residents in Adjuntas reported a small tornado. Some trees were knocked down and some furniture were thrown around.
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
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More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Puerto Rico, 2000Warnings 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: 5157164.