Funnel Cloud, Northwest
- When
- October 1, 2:10 PM AST to 2:20 PM AST
- Where
- Northwest County, Aguadilla
- Reported by
- COASTAL OBSERVING STATION
Funnel Cloud in Puerto Rico, October 1, 2002
Aguadilla Airport Observer sighted a funnel cloud south of the airport.
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.
Aguadilla Airport Observer sighted a funnel cloud south of the airport.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail in Iowa, October 1, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, October 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, October 1, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, October 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 1, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, October 1, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, October 1, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, October 1, 2002
- Heavy Rain in West Virginia, October 1 to 31, 2002
- Drought in New Jersey, October 1 to 31, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, October 1 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, October 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: 5319308.