Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 22, 2003

Name: Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 22, 2003
Start: 2003-04-22T20:50
End: 2003-04-22T20:50
Location: Puerto Rico

April 22, 2003 · NWS SJU · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 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 Apr 22, 4:30 PM AST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 4:30 PM AST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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Event by event

2 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Ponce and Vicinity

When: April 22, 8:50 PM AST
Where: Ponce and Vicinity County, Ponce
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Urban flooding was reported along Highway 52.

Heavy Rain, Ponce and Vicinity

When: April 22, 8:50 PM AST
Where: Ponce and Vicinity County, Juana Diaz
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Urban flooding was reported along road 149.

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

Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Puerto Rico, April 2003

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: 5349315, 5349316.