Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, July 23, 2001

Name: Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, July 23, 2001
Start: 2001-07-23T13:30
End: 2001-07-23T13:30
Location: Puerto Rico

July 23, 2001 · NWS SJU · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

A strong thunderstorm caused strong winds and small hail over parts of northern Puerto Rico. Emergency Managers in Camuy and a spotter in Hatillo reported small hail.

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.

A strong thunderstorm caused strong winds and small hail over parts of northern Puerto Rico. Emergency Managers in Camuy and a spotter in Hatillo reported small hail. In Arecibo strong winds knocked down some tree branches.

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 Jul 23, 12:01 PM AST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 12:01 PM AST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
1201 PM AST MON JUL 23 2001

EXPECT A MIXTURE OF SUNSHINE AND CLOUDINESS ACROSS FA THIS
AFTERNOON. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN
INTERIOR AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO...AS WELL AS ACROSS
THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE SAN JUAN METROPOLITAN AREA. PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAINFALL AND AT LEAST SOME MINOR LOW LYING FLOODING WILL OCCUR
IN A FEW LOCATIONS. PREVIOUS ZFP HAD A PRETTY GOOD HANDLE ON
EXPECTED WX THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO ALTER SKY
COVER AND POPS AND FRESHEN WORDING IN A FEW ZONES.

FOR COASTAL WATERS...MADE A FEW MINOR SEMANTIC ALTERATIONS TO
INHERITED CWF...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES.

EQUIPMENT: NO PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME.

.SJU...
.PR...NONE.
.VI...NONE.

SEELEY

WRITTEN 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

2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, North Central

When: July 23, 1:30 PM AST
Where: North Central County, Arecibo
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Thunderstorm Wind, Northwest

When: July 23, 1:30 PM AST
Where: Northwest County, East Portion
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Puerto Rico, July 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: 5259952, 5259953.