Tornado, San Juan
- When
- February 23, 2:35 PM AST to 2:45 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan County, Caguas
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Tornado in Puerto Rico, February 23, 2000
A Civil Defense official reported a a tornado along the Caguas expressway.
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 Civil Defense official reported a a tornado along the Caguas expressway.
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 Florida, February 23, 2000
- Hail in Missouri, February 23, 2000
- Flood in Ohio, February 23, 2000
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, February 23, 2000
- Flash Flood in New York, February 23, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 23 to 24, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Montana, February 23 to 24, 2000
- Excessive Heat in Wisconsin, February 23 to 29, 2000
- Winter Storm in Idaho, February 23, 2000
- Flooding in U.S. Virgin Islands, February 23, 2000
- Winter Storm in Utah, February 23 to 25, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 23, 2000
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Puerto Rico, 2000Warnings in Puerto Rico, February 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: 5132427.