1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Sep 2, 1:01 PM AST, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 101 PM AST TUE SEP 2 2003 INHERITED GRIDS AND ZFP HAD A GOOD HANDLE ON EXPECTED WEATHER FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SENT FAST ZFP UPDATE TO ALTER SKY COVER AND POPS SLIGHTLY IN MANY ZONES AND ADD HEAVY SURF ADVISORY HEADLINES FOR NORTH THROUGH EAST FACING COASTS OF LOCAL ISLANDS. EAST AND NORTHEAST SWELLS SLOWLY BUILDING...BUT HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN THAT BIG. STILL FEEL THEY WILL INCREASE FURTHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FOR COASTAL WATERS...MADE A COUPLE OF SMALL ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUS CWF...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES./BCS .MIDNIGHT SHIFT DISCUSSION... ALTHOUGH HURRICANE FABIAN ARE FORECASTED TO PASS NEAR 300 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUERTO RICO ON WEDNESDAY...GUIDANCE SUGGEST ITS PROXIMITY WILL CHANGE THE LIGHT TO GENTLE WIND FLOW FROM NORTHEAST TO NORTH TODAY...THEN NORTHWEST AND WEDNESDAY AND EVEN WEST ON THURSDAY. THESE WIND PATTERNS WILL DECIDE THE MOTION OF THE AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS OF TODAYS...WEDNESDAYS AND THURSDAYS. COINCIDING WITH UNUSUAL HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES...LARGE AND LONG PERIOD NORTHEASTERLY SWELLS MAY PRODUCE SEAS FROM 8 TO 10 FEET OVER THE ATLANTIC AND ALL LOCAL PASSAGES. THESE LARGE LONG PERIOD SWELL WILL REACH THE EAST COAST OF THE LOCAL ISLANDS TODAY...PEAKING AROUND MIDNIGHT. BREAKING WAVES FROM 11 TO 13 FEET ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR ALONG THE NORTH AND EAST FACING COASTS OF THE LOCAL ISLANDS...THEREFORE A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT BEGINNING AT 6 AM FROM FAJARDO SOUTH THROUGH MAUNABO AND FOR THE EAST AND NORTHEAST FACING COASTS OF VIEQUES...CULEBRA AND ALL OF U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.AST. A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRE LATER TODAY. ALL LOCAL RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS HURRICANE JUST A BIT LONGER UNTIL IT GAINS A BIT MORE LATITUDE AND SAFELY CLEARS THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS. PLEASE REFER TO ZFP AND CWF FOR FORECAST DETAILS. UPDATED ADVISORIES ON HURRICANE FABIAN CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.NHC.NOAA.GOV SJU... .PR...NONE. .VI...NONE. EQUIPMENT...NO SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME. ROCHE
PRZ001>013-VIZ001-002-AMZ710>750-022200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 600 AM AST TUE SEP 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS PUERTO RICO THE SOUTH HALF OF PUERTO RICO THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS WILL BE FOCUSED MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH SECTIONS AND ALONG THE SOUTHERN SLOPES. THE LIGHT NORTHEAST TO NORTH WIND FLOW WILL PROVIDE A GOOD SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE AND A SLOW MOVEMENT FOR THE SHOWERS RESULTING IN RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER TWO INCHES IN SOME LOCALITIES. THIS MAY RESULT IN URBAN URBAN FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON. ROUGH SEA CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE NORTH AND EAST COASTS OF PUERTO RICO DUE TO THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE FABIAN. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE LOCAL ISLANDS DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...BRIEF PASSING SHOWERS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS EXPECTED...A COUPLE OF LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE ENOUGH RAINFALL TO RESULT IN SOME MINOR URBAN AND GUT FLOODING OR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. ROUGH SEA CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY OVER THE NORTH AND EAST COASTS OF THESE ISLANDS DUE TO THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE FABIAN. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS MAINLY OVERNIGHT INTO THE MORNING HOURS...WITH THE SLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR SOME MINOR URBAN AND GUT FLOODING. 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.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Showers and isolated thunderstorms developed during the early afternoon across the central and interior part of the island causing minor street flooding in Lajas as the moved southwest. The heavy downpours lasted about 15 minutes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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