Debris Flow, Western Interior
- When
- May 13, 3:20 PM AST
- Where
- Western Interior forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
A lanslide was reported along road 140, km. 5.3, Jauca sector, in th municipality of Jayuya.
Debris Flows in Puerto Rico, May 13, 2004
2 debris flow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 May 13, 3:00 PM AST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:00 PM AST, 20 minutes before
PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 300 PM AST THU MAY 13 2004 .DISCUSSION... OVERALL SHOWER ACTIVITY WAS MUCH LESS THAN EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. LOOKING AT SOUNDING AND MODEL DATA...SHOWS NORTH TO NORTHEAST FLOW AT LOW TO MID LEVELS PULLING IN DRIER AIR TO THE LOCAL AREA. HIGH CLOUDS REMAIN IN ABUNDANCE SO OVERALL CLOUDY DAY WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AROUND. WINDS SHIFT TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW TO MORE SOUTHEAST ONCE AGAIN INCREASING MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA. LOOKS LIKE WORST WEATHER WILL OCCUR OVER SE COASTAL WATERS OVERNIGHT...BUT BEST POSSIBILITY FOR SHOWERS AND FLOODING POTENTIAL FOR OVENIGHT FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE ST CROIX AREA. GOOD TROUGHINESS AT MID LEVELS AS WELL AS ASSOCIATED VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT WHICH SHOULD FUEL THE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE AREA...BUT AT UPPER LEVELS...JET ENERGY WILL DIMINISH AND OVERALL DYNAMICS WILL DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS BRINGIN US BACK TO MORE NORMAL WEATHER BY MONDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 73 86 73 85 / 50 50 50 70 STT 73 85 73 84 / 50 50 70 70 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...SCA AMZ710. VI...SCA AMZ710. && RGZ
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 6:10 AM AST, 9 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 610 AM AST THU MAY 13 2004 PRZ001>013-AMZ710>750-141000- 610 AM AST THU MAY 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .TODAY...THE LOCAL AIRMASS STILL MOIST AND UNSTABLE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES MAY BE SIGNIFICANT SINCE SOILS ARE VERY SATURATED ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTH HALF. RIVERS AND STREAMS LEVELS ARE VERY HIGH AND THESE WILL FLOOD WITH LESSER AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER THEIR BASINS. LANDSLIDES ARE LIKELY OVER STEEP TERRAIN. MARINE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ROUGH AND CHOPPY ALONG OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS. ELSEWHERE SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ELSEWHERE EXCEPT THE WEST WATERS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ALTHOUGH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY PRECIPITATION AND CHANCES FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN HIGH THROUGH THE WEEK SATURDAY COULD BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAY AND THE PRECIPITATION MAY BE EXTREME MAINLY OVER VIEQUES...CULEBRA AND THE EAST HALF OF PUERTO RICO. WEATHER THIS DAY WILL BE SEVERE. LANDSLIDES ARE LIKELY OVER STEEP TERRAIN. A MODERATE TO FRESH WIND FLOW AND CHOPPY SEAS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE LOCAL WATERS THROUGH NEXT WEEK. VIZ001-002-AMZ710>730-141000- 610 AM AST THU MAY 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .TODAY...CONTINUOUS MODERATE TO HEAVY PASSING SHOWERS WILL LEAD TO URBAN FLOODING AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION WILL REMAIN HIGH BUT FROM EARLY SATURDAY TO EVENING THE PRECIPITATION MAY BE VERY HEAVY PRODUCING HIGHER CHANCES FOR FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. 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. RIVERA
Event by event
2 debris flow. Local standard time, as filed.
Debris Flow, Central Interior
- When
- May 13, 4:47 PM AST
- Where
- Central Interior forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
A landslide was reported along road 152, km. 18.2 in the municipality of Naranjito.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2004
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2004
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 13, 2004
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 13, 2004
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 13, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13 to 14, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 13 to 14, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13, 2004
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5398400, 5398401.