Flash Flood, Mayaguez and Vicinity
- When
- September 22, 6:00 PM AST to 8:00 PM AST
- Where
- Mayaguez and Vicinity County, Central Portion
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, September 22, 2001
Heavy rains caused Rio Guanajibo to overflow its banks, flooding various roads in Mayaguez, San German and Hormigueros.
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.
Heavy rains caused Rio Guanajibo to overflow its banks, flooding various roads in Mayaguez, San German and Hormigueros.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, September 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Puerto Rico, September 22, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, September 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, September 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 22, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, September 22, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, September 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, September 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, September 22, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, September 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, September 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: 5269126.