Flood, San Juan and Vicinity
- When
- January 25, 4:30 PM AST to 10:30 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan and Vicinity forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Puerto Rico, January 25, 2003
Large northwest swells combined with an onshore wind flow was piling water upon the north coast and not allowing water from the Loiza River to discharge out to sea, causing flooding of low lying areas along the river basin between the mouth of the river in Loiza and the Carraizo water reservoir.
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.
Large northwest swells combined with an onshore wind flow was piling water upon the north coast and not allowing water from the Loiza River to discharge out to sea, causing flooding of low lying areas along the river basin between the mouth of the river in Loiza and the Carraizo water reservoir.
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
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5340120.