Heavy Rain, Northeast
- When
- April 20, 6:00 AM AST to 10:00 AM AST
- Where
- Northeast County, Luquillo
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 20, 2002
A stationary upper level trough in the vicinity of the area caused heavy rains over the northeast sections of Puerto Rico. This rainfall caused several landslides in Luquillo where four families were moved to safety after their houses were partially destroyed.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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 stationary upper level trough in the vicinity of the area caused heavy rains over the northeast sections of Puerto Rico. This rainfall caused several landslides in Luquillo where four families were moved to safety after their houses were partially destroyed. Other low lying areas in Luquillo were flooded.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Missouri, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 20, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, April 20 to 21, 2002
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, April 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, April 20, 2002
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Flood in Ohio, April 20 to 22, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5292829.