Debris Flow, Belau
- When
- February 15, 11:00 AM SST to 10:00 PM SST
- Where
- Belau forecast zone
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Debris Flow in Guam, February 15, 2004
Heavy rain caused a landslide that damaged a house in Meyungs on the island of Ngerkebesang. The hill behind a residence collapsed, breaking a post and sending mud and water into the house.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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 GUA wrote it up.
Heavy rain caused a landslide that damaged a house in Meyungs on the island of Ngerkebesang. The hill behind a residence collapsed, breaking a post and sending mud and water into the house. Rainfall totalled 7.20 inches at the Koror weather Service Office, about 3 miles southeast of the mudslide.
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 GUA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 15, 3:37 AM SST, 7 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 3:37 AM SST, 7 hours 23 minutes before
AREA SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU 1 AM GUAM LST MON FEB 16 2004 WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BETWEEN EQUATOR AND 25N FROM 130E TO 180. TROPICAL DEPRESSION 01W IS LOCATED ABOUT 320 MILES NORTH OF YAP NEAR 14N137E AND MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 4 MPH WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH. FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO JOINT TYPHOON WARNING CENTER BULLETIN WTPN31 PGTW. SCATTERED SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION ARE LOCATED WITHIN 50 MILES OF 15N136E. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM 25N154E TO 20N146E AND PAST THE NORTHERN MARIANAS AS A SHEAR LINE TO 15N134E. EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUDS AND WIDESPREAD SHOWERS ARE LOCATED ALONG AND UP TO 250 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE BOUNDARY. A MONSOON TROUGH EXTENDS FROM TROPICAL DEPRESSION 01W TO 8N150E AND SOUTHEASTWARD TO EQ161E. LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS NEAR PALAU BETWEEN 6N AND 9N FROM 132E TO 137E AND WITHIN 80 MILES OF 8N142E. TRADE-WIND CONVERGENCE IS GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS EAST OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BETWEEN 6N AND 9N FROM 176E TO 180.
Event by event
1 debris flow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Debris Flow
- A fast-moving slurry of mud, rock and debris, usually on a slope soaked by heavy rain or stripped by a fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Cold in Illinois, February 15, 2004
- Winter Storm in Virginia, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, February 15, 2004
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Mississippi, February 15, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, February 15, 2004
- High Wind in Oregon, February 15 to 16, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, February 15, 2004
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5394568.