Flash Flood, North Central
- When
- September 28, 6:10 PM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- North Central County, Dorado
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 18.433, -66.283
A home was reported flooded at Barrio Espinosa.
Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, September 28, 2005
3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 Sep 28, 5:00 PM AST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 5:00 PM AST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 500 PM AST WED SEP 28 2005 .SYNOPSIS... A DEEP LAYERED TROUGH CONTINUES ACROSS THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC... WHILE AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDS FROM A LOW NEAR 30N56W INTO THE NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS. GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE NEAR THE BASE OF TROUGH AND JUST WEST OF IT IS ENHANCING THE CONVECTION TO THE EAST AND ACROSS PARTS OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. LATEST GFS MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THAT A LOW WILL FORM AT THE BASE OF THE AMPLIFYING TROUGH BY THE END OF THE WEEK... AND MOVE NORTH NORTHWEST ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA. IN THE MEANTIME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO BE BROUGHT IN ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA BY THE PREVAILING EASTERLIES...AS THE HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC WILL EXTEND ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA INTO THE WEEKEND. .DISCUSSION...THE PRESENCE OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED FEATURES AND REASONABLE AMOUNTS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ENHANCE CONVECTION ACROSS THE REGIONAL WATERS AND LOCAL ISLANDS THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK....ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOONS. A TROPICAL WAVE ACROSS NEAR 53W ACROSS THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC WILL CONTINUE WESTWARD AND APPROACH THE LESSER ANTILLES BY FRIDAY AND ENTER THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN OVER THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL BRING ADDITIONAL MOISTURE TO THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN OVER THE WEEKEND. && .MARINE... LARGE LONG PERIOD NORTH NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGIONAL COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT WHILE SLOWLY SUBSIDING BY THURSDAY MORNING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL OFFSHORE ATLANTIC WATERS...AND HIGH SURF ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL ATLANTIC COASTLINES UNTIL THURSDAY MORNING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 78 88 78 88 / 50 50 50 60 STT 79 88 79 88 / 50 50 50 70 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...SCA AMZ710. HIGH SURF ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY FOR PRZ001-002-005- 008-010-012-013. VI...HIGH SURF ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY FOR VIZ001. && 09
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 28, 6:30 AM AST, 11 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 630 AM AST WED SEP 28 2005 PRZ001>013-AMZ710>750-291030- 630 AM AST WED SEP 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDS FROM THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC...SOUTHWESTWARD INTO THE AREA. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT TROPICAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FOR PERIODS OF ACTIVE WEATHER...ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF PUERTO RICO. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO URBAN AND STREAM FLOODING...AND SOME AREAS MAY SEE MORE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING BY THE LATE AFTERNOON. LARGE LONG PERIOD NORTH NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGIONAL COASTAL WATERS TODAY AND THEN BEGIN TO SUBSIDE VERY SLOWLY THIS EVENING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS...AND HIGH SURF ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL ATLANTIC COASTLINES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... OTHER THAN DIURNALLY INDUCED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ISOLATED AREAS...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. VIZ001-002-AMZ710>730-291030- 630 AM AST WED SEP 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDS FROM THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC...SOUTHWESTWARD INTO THE AREA. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT TROPICAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FOR PERIODS OF ACTIVE WEATHER...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY LEAD TO URBAN AND GUT TYPE FLOODING. LARGE LONG PERIOD NORTH NORTHEAST SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGIONAL COASTAL WATERS TODAY AND THEN BEGIN TO SUBSIDE VERY SLOWLY THIS EVENING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS...AND HIGH SURF ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE LOCAL ATLANTIC COASTLINES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... OTHER THAN DIURNALLY INDUCED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ISOLATED AREAS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. 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.
The radar
The San Juan radar (TJUA), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:11 UTC.
Event by event
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, North Central
- When
- September 28, 6:25 PM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- North Central County, Dorado
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 18.433, -66.283
Several low lying areas of Highway 2 from Kuilan to Golden Hills, and Maguayo Sector were reported flooded.
Flash Flood, North Central
- When
- September 28, 7:46 PM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- North Central County, Dorado
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 18.433, -66.283
A home was reported flooded at Urb. Los Montes.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5475752, 5475751, 5475753.