Northerly swells reached the local Atlantic waters resulting in large breaking waves and dangerous rip currents. S.
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.
Northerly swells reached the local Atlantic waters resulting in large breaking waves and dangerous rip currents. A high surf advisory was in effect for the north facing coasts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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 Feb 3, 2:41 PM AST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
241 PM AST TUE FEB 3 2015
.SYNOPSIS...A MID TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL REMAINS AS THE MAIN
WEATHER FEATURE ACROSS THE REGION UNTIL AT LEAST WEDNESDAY. THIS
RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS AN
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES OVER EASTERN UNITED STATES SEABOARD AND
AMPLIFYING OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC.
&&
.DISCUSSION...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED ONLY FEW ISOLATED
SHOWERS ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS. NOT SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS
DETECTED OVER LAND AREAS AND ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION SO FAR THIS
AFTERNOON. SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH A MID TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
WILL CONTINUE TO INDUCE AN STABLE AND A GENERAL DRY WEATHER REGIME
OVER THE LOCAL ISLANDS UNTIL AT LEAST WEDNESDAY. THE UPPER RIDGE
WILL BEGIN TO WEAKENS LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS A RESPONSE TO A
DEVELOPING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC. GFS MODEL
GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THAT A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL STALL JUST NORTH OF
THE REGION...OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS...BY THE UPCOMING WEEKEND.
AN UPPER LEVEL LOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO DEVELOP JUST NORTH OF THE
REGION EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS THIS HAPPENS...AN ASSOCIATED FRONTAL
BOUNDARY WILL MOVES VERY CLOSE TO THE LOCAL ISLANDS BY THE MIDDLE
OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. THESE FEATURES WILL PROMOTE AN UNSTABLE
WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE REGION BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF THE
UPCOMING WEEK.
&&
.AVIATION...MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL ACROSS ALL
THE TERMINALS DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. HOWEVER...BRIEF MVFR CIGS
POSSIBLE IN AND AROUND TJBQ BETWEEN 04/17Z-21Z. ESE WINDS AT 10-15
KT EXPECTED BLO 5000 FT...SOME HIGHER GUSTS IN SEA BREEZE AFTER
04/15Z.
&&
.MARINE...NORTH SWELLS WILL SUBSIDE TONIGHT. WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
TO WEAKEN ESPECIALLY DURING THE UPCOMING WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT
WEEK AS AREA BECOMES UNDER A COL REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE MONA PASSAGE AND
OFF OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF PUERTO RICO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A
FRONTAL ZONE GETS CLOSER TO THE AREA.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SJU 74 85 74 87 / 30 20 10 10
STT 74 85 74 84 / 40 50 50 10
&&
.SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PR...NONE.
VI...NONE.
COASTAL WATERS...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM AST THIS EVENING FOR ATLC WATERS
OF PUERTO RICO AND USVI FROM 10NM TO 19.5N.
&&
71/72HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 552 AM AST TUE FEB 3 2015 AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-041000- SAN JUAN AND VICINITY-NORTHEAST-SOUTHEAST-EASTERN INTERIOR- NORTH CENTRAL-CENTRAL INTERIOR-PONCE AND VICINITY-NORTHWEST- WESTERN INTERIOR-MAYAGUEZ AND VICINITY-SOUTHWEST-CULEBRA-VIEQUES- THE NEARSHORE AND OFF SHORE ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 552 AM AST TUE FEB 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BEACH GOERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS THERE IS A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ACROSS THE NORTH COAST OF MAINLAND PUERTO RICO AND CULEBRA. SURF ZONE CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-041000- ST. THOMAS ST. JOHN ADJACENT ISLANDS-ST CROIX- NEARSHORE ATLANTIC AND ADJACENT CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 552 AM AST TUE FEB 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BEACH GOERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS THERE IS A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ACROSS THE NORTH COAST OF ALL LOCAL ISLANDS. SURF ZONE CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 44 year old male drowned in the Pe n Brusi Beach in Camuy as he was pulled out to sea by rip currents. A 25 year old male was also rescued by the local emergency managers rescue team with minor injuries.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Northwest | 2015-02-03 | 44 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, February 2015
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: 560596.