Funnel Cloud in Puerto Rico, June 28, 2001

Name: Funnel Cloud in Puerto Rico, June 28, 2001
Start: 2001-06-28T18:45
End: 2001-06-28T19:00
Location: Puerto Rico

June 28, 2001 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

NAVY personnel in Ceiba observed a funnel cloud just north of the area.

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.

NAVY personnel in Ceiba observed a funnel cloud just north of the area.

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 28, 4:47 PM AST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:47 PM AST, 1 hour 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
200 PM AST THU JUN 28 2001

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS SHORT WAVE CONTINUING TO DROP SOUTH OVER
HISPANIOLA. PUERTO RICO WILL BE IN THE EAST SIDE FOR BEST UPPER
LEVEL FORCING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. UPPER THROUGH AXIS SHIFTS EAST
OVER PUERTO RICO SATURDAY AND FILLS SUNDAY. SHORT WAVE WILL ADVECT
COLD AIR ALOFT DESTABILIZE THE LOCAL ATMOSPHERE. EXPECT BEST
CONVECTIVE CONDITIONS FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH PVA FROM MID LEVEL
TROUGH EAST OF PUERTO RICO...LIGHTER LOW LEVEL WINDS FOR BEST SEA
BREEZE CONVERGENCE. HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE EXTENDING FROM THE SE U.S
WILL WEAKEN ALLOWING THE EASTERLY WINDS TO DIMINISH UNTIL SUNDAY.
GOOD INITIAL CONDITIONS IN AVIATION MODEL WITH NEXT TROPICAL WAVE
NEAR 45 WEST. AVN SHOWS GOOD CONTINUITY WITH TIMING ARRIVAL ACROSS
MY FORECAST AREA...SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY.

EQUIPMENT:WSR-88D OCCASIONALLY RECEIVING BAD DATA.

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

MV

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 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Funnel Cloud, Northeast

When: June 28, 6:45 PM AST to 7:00 PM AST
Where: Northeast County, Ceiba
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY

What these are

Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

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: 5251044.