Puerto Rico

Storms in Puerto Rico in 2009

207 events in 54 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Puerto Rico in 2009, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Puerto Rico in 2009 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
207
Deaths
4
Injuries
6
Damage
$6.7 million
Episodes
54

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Flash Flood8700$6.3 million
Heavy Rain7100$200,000
Flood1610$30,000
Debris Flow1400$25,000
Thunderstorm Wind600$35,000
High Surf500$125,000
Dust Storm300
Tropical Depression200
Lightning110
Tornado100$15,000
Coastal Flood126$15,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

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March 2009

April 2009

May 2009

June 2009

July 2009

August 2009

September 2009

October 2009

November 2009

December 2009

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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.