A cold front was located around thirty to fifty miles north of Puerto Rico and was moving southeastward. Showers and thunderstorms associated with the front caused heavy rain in sections of San Juan during the evening.
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The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
A cold front was located around thirty to fifty miles north of Puerto Rico and was moving southeastward. Showers and thunderstorms associated with the front caused heavy rain in sections of San Juan during the evening.
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 Apr 17, 3:56 PM AST, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 622 AM AST TUE APR 17 2007 PRZ001>013-AMZ710>750-181000- 622 AM AST TUE APR 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY IN THE EVENING ACROSS THE ISLAND. THE MOST ACTIVE CONVECTION WILL BE IN THE INTERIOR...NORTH AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO. THE RESULTING RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ACROSS LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING OVER THE AFFECTED AREAS. HOWEVER...NO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED DURING THIS PERIOD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE LOCAL ISLANDS WEDNESDAY AND MAY RESULT IN SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. IN ADDITION...LONG PERIOD...NORTHWEST SWELLS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE LOCAL ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE CARIBBEAN PASSAGES LATE TONIGHT...BUT ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY AND WILL LINGER THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...RESULTING IN SEAS OF 5 TO 9 FEET. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. VIZ001-002-AMZ710>730-181000- 622 AM AST TUE APR 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. .TODAY AND TONIGHT...ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE ISLANDS AND THE LOCAL COASTAL WATERS. THE RESULTING RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ACROSS LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED DURING THIS PERIOD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE LOCAL ISLANDS WEDNESDAY AND MAY RESULT IN SOME URBAN AND GUT FLOODING. IN ADDITION...LONG PERIOD...NORTHWEST SWELLS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE LOCAL ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE CARIBBEAN PASSAGES LATE TONIGHT...BUT ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY AND WILL LINGER THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...RESULTING IN SEAS OF 5 TO 9 FEET. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. 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 FROM YOUR PDA/PHONE: HTTP://MOBILE.SRH.NOAA.GOV OR WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/WML
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain and some urban flooding was reported in the San Jose area of Rio Piedras.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, April 2007
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 30192.