Waterspout, Aguadilla
- When
- May 28, 12:25 PM AST to 12:35 PM AST
- Where
- Aguadilla County, Aguadilla
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, May 28, 2000
A pilot reported two waterspouts 20 miles west of Aguadilla airport moving west southwest.
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 pilot reported two waterspouts 20 miles west of Aguadilla airport moving west southwest.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 28, 2000
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 28, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 28 to 31, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2000
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2000
- Funnel Clouds in Texas, May 28, 2000
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 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: 5147268.