Puerto Rico, 2001

Flood in Puerto Rico, March 24, 2001

March 24, 2001 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

An Emergency Manager indicated that Rio Jayuya went out of its banks in Jayuya, flooding nearby areas. In addition five people were trapped in the river, when a sudden water rush forced them to climb a rock in the middle of the stream.

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.

An Emergency Manager indicated that Rio Jayuya went out of its banks in Jayuya, flooding nearby areas. In addition five people were trapped in the river, when a sudden water rush forced them to climb a rock in the middle of the stream. They were later rescued unharmed.

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 Mar 24, 12:03 PM AST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 12:03 PM AST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
1203 PM AST SAT MAR 24 2001

EXPECT VARYING AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS ACROSS FA THIS AFTERNOON WITH
SCT-NMRS RWS AND ISOLD TRWS. PREVIOUS ZFP HAD A PRETTY GOOD HANDLE
ON EXPECTED WX FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO ALTER
ZONE GROUPINGS...SKY COVER AND POPS A BIT.

FOR COASTAL WATERS...DECIDED TO HOIST UP SCA FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR
ATLC WATERS AND ALL PASSAGES DUE TO BUILDING NW SWELLS. OTHERWISE...
MADE LITTLE CHANGE TO PREVIOUS CWF.

EQUIPMENT: TISX ASOS HAS AOMC PRIORITY 1 TROUBLE TICKET FOR DEMP/DEW
PT PROBLEM AND LOCAL TECH PREPARING TO GO THERE THIS AFTERNOON.

SEELEY

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

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
March 24, 3:30 PM AST to 5:30 PM AST
Where
Central Interior County, Jayuya
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

More

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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: 5230197.