1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 24, 5:45 PM AST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 545 PM AST TUE MAY 24 2005 .DISCUSSION...VERY BUSY AFTERNOON AGAIN...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTH HALF OF PUERTO RICO. FIRST BATCH OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED SOME AND SHIFTED OFF THE NORTH COAST...BUT STILL HAVE LINGERING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL ACROSS MANY SECTIONS. IN ADDITION...NEW CELLS WITH OVERSHOOTING TOPS HAVE MOVED/INTO DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL PUERTO RICO...IN ASSOCIATION WITH WEAK MESOSCALE VORTEX ASSOCIATED WITH REMNANTS OF SURFACE TROUGH AND PROBABLY LEFTOVER OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM FIRST BATCH OF CONVECTION. ANYWAY...EXPECT THIS SECOND SURGE OF ACTIVITY TO LINGER FOR A FEW HOURS AND STILL CANNOT RULE OUT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. MAIN CULPRIT FOR ACTIVE WEATHER AGAIN TODAY...WAS REMNANTS OF OLD SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING FROM NEAR JAMAICA EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS HISPANIOLA...THEN EAST ACROSS PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THEN NORTHEAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FEATURE WILL MOVE LITTLE AND CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DISSIPATE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT ITS PROXIMITY TO THE LOCAL ISLANDS THROUGH TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...IN COMBINATION WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS...LOCAL EFFECTS...AND GENERALLY FAVORABLE MID TO UPPER LEVEL CONDITIONS...SHOULD AGAIN ALLOW FOR AT LEAST SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF THE LOCAL AREA BY LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY OVER THE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND AT LEAST SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL OCCUR AGAIN IN A FEW AREAS. THE REMNANTS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO SHIFT NORTH OF THE LOCAL ISLANDS BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...AS HIGH PRESSURE AT LOW TO MID LEVELS PUSHES INTO THE LOCAL AREA FROM THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST. THIS HIGHER PRESSURE TREND...SHOULD MAKE FOR AN OVERALL DRIER WEATHER PATTERN LOCALLY FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...AND POSSIBLY SATURDAY... BUT STILL WITH DIURNALLY INDUCED ACTIVITY EACH DAY. && .MARINE...OUTSIDE OF ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...FAIRLY TRANQUIL MARINE CONDITIONS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE LOCAL WATERS THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. GENERALLY EXPECT WINDS OF 15 KNOTS OR LESS AND SEAS 4 FEET OR LESS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 77 90 77 89 / 70 50 50 50 STT 79 89 77 87 / 50 50 40 40 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .PR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH PRZ001-002-004>006-008>010 TIL 25/0030Z. .VI...NONE. && BCS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 600 AM AST TUE MAY 24 2005 PRZ001>013-AMZ710>750-251000- 600 AM AST TUE MAY 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...A SURFACE TROUGH WILL DRIFT SOUTHEAST TODAY AND REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA. ACTIVE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS TROUGH THROUGH TONIGHT. SEA BREEZE EFFECTS COMBINED WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND WEST TO SOUTHWEST LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP MAINLY ALONG THE NORTH AND EAST PORTIONS OF PUERTO RICO...ALTHOUGH THE OTHER SECTIONS WILL SEE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS COULD BE EXPECTED TODAY ALONG THE NORTH HALF OF PUERTO RICO. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... DECREASE IN MOISTURE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY WITH LIGHT EAST FLOW DOMINATING. ASIDE FROM LOCAL SEA BREEZE EFFECTS...A DRIER WEATHER PATTERN SHOULD PREVAIL. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. VIZ001-002-AMZ710>730-251000- 600 AM AST TUE MAY 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...A SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS THE LOCAL ATLANTIC WATERS OFF SHORE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WILL DRIFT SOUTHEAST TODAY AND REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA. ACTIVE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS TROUGH THROUGH TONIGHT. LIGHT WEST WINDS COMBINED WITH MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE TERRITORY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... DECREASE IN MOISTURE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY WITH LIGHT EAST FLOW DOMINATING. ASIDE FROM LOCAL SEA BREEZE EFFECTS...A DRIER WEATHER PATTERN SHOULD PREVAIL. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. 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.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Some flooded areas were reported along Highway 1 and 2,. The Inabon river was reported out of its banks, and affecting parts of Mercedita Airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, May 2005
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: 5452154.