Flood in Puerto Rico, June 16, 2001

Name: Flood in Puerto Rico, June 16, 2001
Start: 2001-06-16T14:00
End: 2001-06-16T16:00
Location: Puerto Rico

June 16, 2001 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A strong thunderstorm caused strong winds and urban flooding in Morovis. Emergency Managers indicated that a house had flooding problems.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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 strong thunderstorm caused strong winds and urban flooding in Morovis. Emergency Managers indicated that a house had flooding problems.

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 Jun 16, 11:00 AM AST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 11:00 AM AST, 3 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
1100 AM AST SAT JUN 16 2001

EXPECTED AN ACTIVE AFTERNOON DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF A TROPICAL
WAVE...LIGHT EAST WINDS...FAVORABLE FOR SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE...
AND PLENTY OF DAYTIME HEATING. FOCUS OF CONVECTION WILL BE OVER THE
WEST AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF PR AS LOW LEVEL WINDS WERE EAST
SOUTHEAST. MODELS CONTINUED TO INCREASE MOISTURE ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY BEHIND THE WAVE.

EQUIPMENT: NO PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME.

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

15

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

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Central Interior

When: June 16, 2:00 PM AST to 4:00 PM AST
Where: Central Interior County, Morovis
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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, June 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: 5251033.