Flood, San Juan and Vicinity
- When
- August 24, 1:00 PM AST to 2:30 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan and Vicinity County, San Juan
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Puerto Rico, August 24, 2002
Various roads and avenues in the San Juan metropolitan area flooded due to heavy rains.
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.
Various roads and avenues in the San Juan metropolitan area flooded due to heavy rains.
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 Aug 24, 11:55 AM AST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 11:55 AM AST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 1155 AM AST SAT AUG 24 2002 EXPECT A MIXTURE OF SUNSHINE AND CLOUDINESS ACROSS FA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN INTERIOR AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO...AS WELL AS OVER PARTS OF THE SAN JUAN METRO AREA. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME MINOR LOW LYING FLOODING ARE PROBABLE IN A FEW LOCATIONS. FOR COASTAL WATERS...MADE A FEW MINOR SEMANTIC ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUS CWF...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES. EQUIPMENT: GOOD NEWS WSR-88D RETURNED TO SERVICE AT 1144UTC. NO OTHER PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME. .SJU... .PR...NONE. .VI...NONE. SEELEY 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.
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
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 24, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 24, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Colorado, August 24, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 24, 2002
- Heavy Rain in Nebraska, August 24, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Tennessee, August 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 24 to 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 24, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, August 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 24, 2002
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 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: 5313155.