Surface high pressure north of the region maintained moderate to fresh trade winds. Buoys indicated seas of 4 to 5 feet across Caribbean and Atlantic waters.
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.
Surface high pressure north of the region maintained moderate to fresh trade winds. Buoys indicated seas of 4 to 5 feet across Caribbean and Atlantic waters. Small craft operators were urged to exercise caution.
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 May 9, 6:07 AM AST, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 607 AM AST SAT MAY 9 2015 .SYNOPSIS...MID TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD THROUGH TUESDAY...WEAKENING AS DEEPENING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AMPLIFIES OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC AND REACH THE LOCAL AREA BY WEDNESDAY. SFC HIGH OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE MODERATE TO FRESH TRADE WINDS THRU AT LEAST MID WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATED A BAND OF HIGH CIRRUS CLOUDS EXTENDING FROM THE CARIBBEAN WATERS ACROSS ALL LOCAL ISLANDS INTO THE ATLANTIC WATERS. SHOWER ACTIVITY OVER LAND AREAS OVERNIGHT WAS VERY LIMITED...WITH A FEW AND BRIEF SHOWERS DETECTED OVER ISOLATED AREAS OF EASTERN PR. HOWEVER...BY EARLY MORNING ISLD-SCT SHOWERS MOVING WITH THE TRADE WINDS WERE DETECTED BY THE TERMINAL DOPPLER RADAR OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS WITH A FEW OF THEM PASSING NEAR THE COAST OF THE NORTHERN USVI. FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING HOURS A FEW OF THESE SHOWERS COULD REACH PARTS OF THE USVI AND SECTIONS OF EASTERN PR...BUT RAINFALL WILL NOT BE SIGNIFICANT. A RELIEF FROM SAHARAN DUST IS EXPECTED AT LEAST UNTIL TUESDAY WHEN MODELS SUGGEST A NEW INCURSION OF THE SAHARAN AIR LAYER. MID TO UPPER CIRRUS CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA. MID LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUES TO HOLD BUT AT THE SAME TIME SLOWLY WEAKEN...THE CAP INVERSION WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THE PAST FEW DAYS AND WILL ALLOW FOR PWAT VALUES TO SLOWLY INCREASE EACH DAY. THEREFORE...ISLD TO SCT SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING HOURS PERIOD ACROSS THE WATERS AND THE WINDWARD AREAS OF THE ISLANDS FOLLOWED BY AFTERNOON SHALLOW CONVECTION OVER WESTERN PR EACH DAY. CONDITIONS WILL BE MONITORED AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES OVER THE AREA BY MID WEEK AND INCREASES THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND ISLD TSTMS. && .AVIATION...MAINLY DRY BUT WITH SCT-BKN MID-HIGH LEVEL CLOUD DECK. WINDY WITH EAST WINDS 15G25KT. && .MARINE...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE NORTH OF THE REGION WILL MAINTAIN MODERATE TO FRESH TRADE WINDS INTO MID NEXT WEEK. BUOYS ARE INDICATING SEAS OF 4-5 FEET ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN AND ATLANTIC WATERS. RINCON BUOY 41115 WAS AT 2 FEET JUST BEFORE 5 AM AST AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE BELOW 3 FEET THRU THE FCST PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 91 77 89 77 / 20 20 20 20 STT 87 77 86 77 / 20 30 30 20 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...NONE. VI...NONE. AM...NONE. && 64/13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 536 AM AST SAT MAY 9 2015 AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-100945- 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- 536 AM AST SAT MAY 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT MOST ATLANTIC BEACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY AT MOST ATLANTIC BEACHES. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-100945- ST. THOMAS ST. JOHN ADJACENT ISLANDS-ST CROIX- NEARSHORE ATLANTIC AND ADJACENT CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 536 AM AST SAT MAY 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON EAST FACING BEACHES OF SAINT CROIX. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY ON EAST FACING BEACHES OF SAINT CROIX. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 29-year old man from Poland and professor at University of Puerto Rico was carried away by rip currents ad Guajataca Beach in the county line between Quebradillas and Isabela.
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 | 2015-05-09 | 29 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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