Flood, Ponce and Vicinity
- When
- November 3, 4:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce and Vicinity County, Countywide
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flooding in Puerto Rico, November 3, 2002
Heavy rains occurred across the southwest sections of Puerto Rico. The municipalities most affected were Penuelas and Mayaguez with urban flooding, landslides and blocked roads.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 occurred across the southwest sections of Puerto Rico. The municipalities most affected were Penuelas and Mayaguez with urban flooding, landslides and blocked roads. Also, a small stream in Mayaguez went out of its banks and carried away a car with his occupant. He was 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 Nov 3, 11:58 AM AST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 11:58 AM AST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 1158 AM AST SUN NOV 3 2002 WEAK TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED OVER THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS LATE THIS MORNING WILL MOVE WEST NORTHWEST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE LOCAL AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY MONDAY. EXPECT A MIXTURE OF SUN AND CLOUDS ACROSS FA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE CLOUDINESS GRADUALLY GAINING THE UPPER HAND BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE INTERIOR AND NORTH SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO. INHERITED ZFP HAD GOOD HANDLE ON EXPECTED WEATHER FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO ALTER SKY COVER AND POPS SLIGHTLY AND TO FRESHEN WORDING IN MOST ZONES. FOR COASTAL WATERS...MADE A COUPLE OF MINOR SEMANTIC ALTERATIONS TO THE 1ST PERIOD OF INHERITED CWF...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES. EQUIPMENT: NO PROBLEMS. .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).
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 3, 6:00 AM AST, 10 hours before
PRZ001>013-VIZ001-002-AMZ710>750-031400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 600 AM AST SUN NOV 3 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS INTERIOR AND WEST SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO A TROPICAL WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EAST SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. NO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS EXPECTED. HOWEVER...LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT ANTICIPATED. .MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER MAINLY CENTRAL AND WESTERN AREAS OF PUERTO RICO EACH AFTERNOON. A MINOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN A FEW AREAS EACH AFTERNOON. THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .TODAY AND TONIGHT... A TROPICAL WAVE IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS WAVE WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE ISLANDS. NO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS EXPECTED. HOWEVER...LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT ANTICIPATED. .MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AT (ALL LOWERCASE LETTERS): HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/SJU.
Event by event
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Mayaguez and Vicinity
- When
- November 3, 4:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Mayaguez and Vicinity County, Countywide
- 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: 5321700, 5321701.