Waterspout, Southwest
- When
- October 30, 3:10 PM AST to 3:20 PM AST
- Where
- Southwest County, Cabo Rojo
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, October 30, 2000
Local residents in the Joyuda sector sighted a waterspout off shore.
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.
Local residents in the Joyuda sector sighted a waterspout off shore.
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
- Flood in California, October 30, 2000
- Strong Wind in Maine, October 30 to 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Colorado, October 30 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Utah, October 30 to 31, 2000
- Cold in Massachusetts, October 30, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, October 30, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, October 30, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, October 30, 2000
- Flood in Hawaii, October 30, 2000
- Flood in Oklahoma, October 30 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, October 30 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, October 30 to 31, 2000
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5157880.