Name: Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 19, 2004
Start: 2004-04-19T17:45
End: 2004-04-19T17:45
Location: Puerto Rico

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 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 19, 4:30 PM AST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 4:30 PM AST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 6:00 AM AST, 11 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
600 AM AST MON APR 19 2004

PRZ001>013-AMZ710>750-201000-
600 AM AST MON APR 19 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO.

.TODAY AND TONIGHT...INCREASED MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA THROUGH TONIGHT...WHICH WILL INCREASE
THE CHANCES OF RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOODING. THIS RAINFALL COULD ALSO PRODUCE SOME AREAS OF
RIVER FLOODING.

LONG PERIOD EAST NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE LOCAL
ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN PASSAGES THROUGH TODAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY.

.TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THERE WILL BE A GREATER AMOUNT OF
INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE OVER OUR LOCAL AREA THROUGH MUCH OF THE
WEEK WHICH WILL PRODUCE MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWER ACTIVITY.
LONG PERIOD EAST NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE LOCAL
ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN PASSAGES WITH A PEAK IN
SEA HEIGHTS EXPECTED AT NEAR 7 FEET IN THE OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS
THIS AFTERNOON.

VIZ001-002-AMZ710>730-201000-
600 AM AST MON APR 19 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.

.TODAY AND TONIGHT...INCREASED MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY OVER THE
LOCAL AREA THROUGH TONIGHT WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES OF
RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING.

LONG PERIOD EAST NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE LOCAL
ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN PASSAGES THROUGH TODAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY.

.TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THERE WILL BE A GREATER AMOUNT OF
INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE OVER OUR LOCAL AREA THROUGH MUCH OF THE
WEEK WHICH WILL PRODUCE AN OVERALL INCREASE IN SHOWER ACTIVITY
THROUGH THE WEEK.
LONG PERIOD EAST NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE LOCAL
ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN PASSAGES WITH A PEAK IN
SEA HEIGHTS EXPECTED AT NEAR 7 FEET OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS THIS
AFTERNOON.

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.

Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Northwest

When: April 19, 5:45 PM AST
Where: Northwest County, Hatillo
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Two houses were reported flooded.

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

More

Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Puerto Rico, April 2004

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: 5391799.