Flood in Puerto Rico, April 16, 2002

Name: Flood in Puerto Rico, April 16, 2002
Start: 2002-04-16T07:00
End: 2002-04-16T09:00
Location: Puerto Rico

April 16, 2002 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Heavy rains caused various roads and a sector in Naguabo to flood.

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 various roads and a sector in Naguabo to flood.

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 Apr 16, 5:21 AM AST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 5:21 AM AST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
400 AM AST TUE APR 16 2002

LOW LEVEL TROUGH LOCATED OVER WESTERN PUERTO RICO EARLY THIS MORNING
WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY WEST AWAY FROM THE REGION THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. EXPECT SIMILAR CONDITIONS AS YESTERDAY WITH CONSIDERABLE
AMOUNTS OF CLOUDINESS ACROSS FA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO
NUMEROUS SHOWERS WILL OCCUR OVER OUR AREA...A COUPLE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. INHERITED ZFP HAD A GOOD HANDLE ON
EXPECTED WEATHER TODAY.

FOR COASTAL WATERS...MADE A FEW MINOR ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUS CWF...
OTHERWISE NO CHANGES. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR ALL
ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN WATERS OVERNIGHT.

.PREELIMINARY NUMBERS...
SJU WW 084/075 084/073 085 25645
STT WW 085/074 086/073 083 25645

EQUIPMENT: NO SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME.

.SJU...
.PR...SCA AMZ710>740.
.VI...SCA AMZ710>730.

MORALES

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 SITE AT:

HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/SJU (ALL LOWER CASE).

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Northeast

When: April 16, 7:00 AM AST to 9:00 AM AST
Where: Northeast County, Naguabo
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 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Puerto Rico, April 2002

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: 5292828.