Tornado, Mayaguez and Vicinity
- When
- October 4, 2:50 PM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Mayaguez and Vicinity County, Aguada
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Tornado in Puerto Rico, October 4, 2002
Emergency Managers reported that a resident of Aguada, Malpaso sector, sighted a tornado. A house was affected as the zinc roof was detached from the rest of the house.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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.
Emergency Managers reported that a resident of Aguada, Malpaso sector, sighted a tornado. A house was affected as the zinc roof was detached from the rest of the house.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, October 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, October 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, October 4, 2002
- High Wind in Ohio, October 4, 2002
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, October 4, 2002
- High Wind in New York, October 4 to 5, 2002
- High Wind in Mississippi, October 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, October 4, 2002
- Tornado in Alabama, October 4, 2002
- High Wind in Tennessee, October 4, 2002
- High Wind in New York, October 4 to 5, 2002
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Puerto Rico, 2002Warnings 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: 5319373.