Heavy Rain, Ponce and Vicinity
- When
- April 6, 12:30 PM AST to 2:30 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce and Vicinity County, Yauco
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 6, 2001
Emergency Managers in Yauco reported a landslide over Rio Prieto sector.
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 Yauco reported a landslide over Rio Prieto sector.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 6, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 6, 2001
- High Wind in New Mexico, April 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 6, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 27, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, April 2001
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: 5239905.