Puerto Rico, 2009

Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009 · NWS SJU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A moist and unstable southeast wind flow combined with daytime heating and local effects to generate showers and isolated thunderstorms over the north and east sections of Puerto Rico. Locally heavy rainfall led to urban and small stream flooding across the municipality of Arecibo.

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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$5,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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 happened

The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.

A moist and unstable southeast wind flow combined with daytime heating and local effects to generate showers and isolated thunderstorms over the north and east sections of Puerto Rico. Locally heavy rainfall led to urban and small stream flooding across the municipality of Arecibo.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Arecibo

When
June 13, 4:28 PM AST to 7:30 PM AST
Where
Arecibo County, 0.59 mi NW of Arecibo
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
18.425, -66.677

One home was flooded at Barrio Bajadero, Carreras 2 sector, road 636, in the municipality of Arecibo.

What these are

Heavy Rain
Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, June 2009

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 184392.