Strong showers and thunderstorms developed across the west and southwest section of Puerto Rico during the early afternoon in response to an upper level trough that was approaching from the east. The interaction of the trough with local effects enhanced shower and thundersorm development.
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 episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
Strong showers and thunderstorms developed across the west and southwest section of Puerto Rico during the early afternoon in response to an upper level trough that was approaching from the east. The interaction of the trough with local effects enhanced shower and thundersorm development.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Street and road flooding was reported in the municipality of Hormigueros. Three homes were flooded at Barrio Jaguita, Lavadero and Estancias del Rio. Roads Guamani, 104, 3, 346, 114 were reported flooded.
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