Flood, Ponce
- When
- May 20, 9:00 PM AST to 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce County, Ponce
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Puerto Rico, May 20, 2000
Emergency Managers in Ponce reported flooding of a river channel. In addition, a radio station indicated about four feet of water over some roads in Ponce.
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.
Emergency Managers in Ponce reported flooding of a river channel. In addition, a radio station indicated about four feet of water over some roads in Ponce.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flood and Hail in North Carolina, May 20, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Texas, May 20, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 20, 2000
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Colorado, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Nebraska, May 20, 2000
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 20, 2000
More
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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: 5147267.