Name: Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, June 9, 2004
Start: 2004-06-09T23:20
End: 2004-06-09T23:20
Location: Puerto Rico

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 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 Jun 9, 8:41 PM AST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:41 PM AST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
840 PM AST WED JUN  9 2004

UPDATE...
SURGE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE TROPICAL WAVE SOUTHEAST OF THE LOCAL AREA IS MIGRATING NORTHWEST
THIS EVENING AND IS LIKELY TO IMPACT THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN
COASTAL AREAS OF PUERTO RICO. HAVE RAISED POPS ACCORDINGLY.
ADDITIONALLY...HAVE ADJUSTED THE POPS FOR ST. CROIX GIVEN THE
PROXIMITY OF THE HEAVY RAIN OFFSHORE.

STREAMER EMANATING FROM EL YUNQUE CONTINUES TO FIRE UP.  UNTIL EARLY
MORNING THURSDAY HAVE KEPT POPS HIGH IN A BAND DOWNWIND OF EL YUNQUE
TO COVER BASES.

KIMBERLAIN

.DISCUSSION...WILL CONTINUE WITH NOT MUCH CHANGES IN THE ACTUAL
FORECAST PACKAGE. SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTED A TROPICAL WAVE THIS
MORNING MAINLY SOUTH OF THE LOCAL AREA WHERE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN
AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AD THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CARIBBEAN WATERS.
THIS WAVE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT EXITING THE LOCAL AREA EARLY THURSDAY. PART OF THE MOISTURE
AND INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED TO THIS WAVE SHOULD RESULT IN INCREASED
CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION THURSDAY.

ANOTHER TROPICAL WAVE IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE TO THE LOCAL ISLANDS
FRIDAY. THIS SECOND WAVE WILL IN GENERAL MOVE MORE TO THE NORTH
WITH HIGHER CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
AND PUERTO RICO FRIDAY...SATURDAY AND POSSIBLY SUNDAY WITH A DRIER
WEATHER MONDAY.

&&

.CLIMATE...ALTHOUGH JUNE IS CHARACTERIZED BY A MINI DROUGHT IN
GENERAL...THIS PARTICULAR JUNE HAVE STARTED AND LOOKS LIKE IT WILL
CONTINUE WETTER THAN USUAL.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SJU  78  89  78  89 /  40  50  40  40
STT  79  89  79  89 /  50  50  40  40

&&

.SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PR...NONE.
VI...NONE.

&&

RIVERA

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 6:12 AM AST, 17 hours 8 minutes before

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, San Juan and Vicinity

When: June 9, 11:20 PM AST
Where: San Juan and Vicinity County, San Juan
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Cerra street in Santurce was 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, June 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: 5407351.