Flash Flood, Mayaguez and Vicinity
- When
- September 20, 8:00 PM AST to 10:00 PM AST
- Where
- Mayaguez and Vicinity County, San German
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, September 20, 2000
Heavy rain caused the Guanajibo river in Cabo Rojo and the Rosario river in San German togo out of their banks flooding nearby roads.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Heavy rain caused the Guanajibo river in Cabo Rojo and the Rosario river in San German togo out of their banks flooding nearby roads.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Southwest
- When
- September 20, 8:00 PM AST to 10:00 PM AST
- Where
- Southwest County, Cabo Rojo
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5157549, 5157550.