Heavy Rain, Ponce and Vicinity
- When
- May 27, 5:45 PM AST
- Where
- Ponce and Vicinity County, Guayanilla
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
Univision camera person reported that small stream Quebrada Honda was out of its banks over the bridge.
Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, May 27, 2004
1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 May 27, 2:55 PM AST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:55 PM AST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 255 PM AST THU MAY 27 2004 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT IS CENTERED VERY NEAR PUERTO RICO AND THE LOCAL AREA WILL REMAIN UNDER HIGH PRESSURE AT LEAST THROUGH SATURDAY. WINDS ALOFT HAVE ALSO BEEN VERY LIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE AT 500 MB IS MAINLY OVER FLORIDA...BUT BY NEXT WEEKEND IT WILL REFORM NEAR 33 NORTH 53 WEST. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL ALSO MOVE EAST OVER THE AREA BEGINNING THURSDAY NEXT. ALTHOUGH MOISTURE OVERSPREADS THE AREA AT THIS TIME THERE APPEARS TO BE LITTLE EFFECT AT THE SURFACE FROM THIS TRANSIT OF LOW PRESSURE. AT THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING REMAINS SLUMPED ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE MID ATLANTIC TO THE BAHAMAS AND WILL KEEP FLOW EAST TO EAST SOUTHEAST FOR THE NEXT WEEK AT LEAST. && .DISCUSSION...MODELS ARE BRINGING DRYER AIR IN FROM THE EAST NORTHEAST. THE DRIEST COLUMN OF AIR APPEARS TO BE OVER SAN JUAN AT 18Z FRIDAY...AND ONLY A LITTLE EARLIER OVER THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. THIS IS GREATLY LIMITING NIGHTTIME CONVECTION. STRONG SURFACE HEATING AND RELATIVELY LIGHT WINDS ARE ALLOWING GOOD CONVECTION OVER THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL INTERIOR SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO...BUT CONTINUED DRYING WILL MAKE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL TOMORROW EVEN LESS THAN TODAY. THINGS ON SATURDAY WILL BE SIMILAR TO TODAY. THE WEEK WILL SLOWLY BECOME MORE MOIST...THROUGH THURSDAY WHEN SHOWERS WILL AGAIN BECOME NUMEROUS OVER AREAS OF PUERTO RICO. THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WILL BE PARTICULARLY DRY TOMORROW AND WILL SEE ALMOST NO SHOWER ACTIVITY FOR THE FIRST SEVERAL DAYS. SHOWERS WILL SPREAD OVER THEM ON THURSDAY AS WELL...BUT COVERAGE WILL BE LESS THAN OVER PUERTO RICO. BECAUSE OF EAST TO EAST SOUTHEAST FLOW...WARMER TEMPERATURES WILL BE FAVORED OVER THE NORTHERN COASTS OF PUERTO RICO...AND 90S ARE POSSIBLE ONLY A LITTLE WAYS INLAND TOMORROW AND POSSIBLY SATURDAY. SOUTHEAST SEA BREEZES WILL TEND TO MODERATE TEMPERATURES ON THE SOUTHERN COASTS AND IN THE GENERAL VICINITIES OF THE AIRPORTS ON SAINT THOMAS AND SAINT CROIX. && .MARINE...SEAS HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY TRANQUIL AND WILL INCREASE ONLY SLIGHTLY SUNDAY AND MONDAY DUE TO INCREASED WINDS. NORTH SWELL OF ABOUT 3 FEET WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY NEXT YIELDING THE HIGHEST SEAS OF THE COMING WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 75 89 75 88 / 10 0 10 20 STT 76 86 76 85 / 0 0 10 20 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...NONE. VI...NONE. && SNELL
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kentucky, May 27 to 28, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 27 to 28, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 27, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 27 to 28, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, May 27 to 28, 2004
- Tornado in Kentucky, May 27, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 27, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
More
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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: 5398898.