Waterspout, Northeast
- When
- February 9, 6:20 PM AST to 6:30 PM AST
- Where
- Northeast County, Fajardo
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
Waterspout in Puerto Rico, February 9, 2001
A pilot sighted two waterspouts about two miles south of Fajardo moving west.
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 sighted two waterspouts about two miles south of Fajardo moving west.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Juan, PR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 9, 2:33 PM AST, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 2:33 PM AST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
233 PM AST FRI FEB 09 2001
AVN AND MRF MODELS INCREASING EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND 25
KNOTS ACROSS THE LOCAL REGION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY BECOMING EASTERLY
SATURDAY NIGHT. A VERY DIFFUSE FRONTAL ZONE CONTINUES MOVING SOUTH
ACROSS THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC PER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. THIS FEATURE
IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE LOW TO MID LEVEL MOISTURE ON SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY. MOISTURE IS FORECASTED TO DECREASE ON MONDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. OTHERWISE...DO NOT SEE ANY SYNOPTIC PATTERN THAT COULD
BRING UNSTABLE CONDITIONS TO OUR AREA.
HIGH PRESSURE COMING OFF THE EASTERN COAST OF U.S. WILL CONTINUE TO
MOVE EAST TOWARD THE CENTRAL NORTH ATLANTIC THROUGH MONDAY. THIS
WILL PRODUCE TIGHTER PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER THE NORTHEASTERN
CARIBBEAN PRODUCING WINDY CONDITIONS AT LEAST THROUGH MONDAY.
SHIP OBS SHOWED NEAR 9 FEET OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATER WHILE LOCAL
CAMERAS SHOWED 4 TO 6 FEET NEAR SHORE. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL
REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR ALL WATERS...EXCEPT FOR THE NEAR SHORE WATERS
OF WESTERN PUERTO RICO DUE TO WINDY CONDITIONS.
EQUIPMENT: NO PROBLEMS.
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
SJU BB 073/085 072/084 072 55344
STT BB 073/085 072/085 072 55344=
SJU...
.PR...SCA AMZ750-770-773-775.
.VI...SCA AMZ750-770-773.
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OTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TEXT FORECASTS (IN ENGLISH OR
SPANISH)...SATELLITE IMAGERY ...DOPPLER RADAR DATA...AND A VIRTUAL
LIBRARY OF WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT THE NWS SAN JUAN WEB
SITES AT:
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/SJU (ALL LOWER CASE).
OR
HTTP://WWW.UPR.CLU.EDU/NWS (ALL LOWER CASE).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
- Rip Current in Florida, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 9, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Michigan, February 9 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 9 to 14, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 9, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in New York, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, February 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5228641.