The combination of a deep-layered trough, abundant moisture in combination with strong daytime heating and local effects resulted in rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms across different portions of Puerto Rico during the afternoon hours between September 6th and September 8th.
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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.
The combination of a deep-layered trough, abundant moisture in combination with strong daytime heating and local effects resulted in rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms across different portions of Puerto Rico during the afternoon hours between September 6th and September 8th.
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 Sep 6, 11:42 AM AST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
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6 flood, 1 debris flow. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding reported along Residencial Francisco Sein across from the Fire Station.
Flooding reported along Avenida El Comandante passing el Selecto Supermarket.
Flooding reported along Avenida Main near Laboratorio Clinico Caribbean across from the Walgreens.
Flooding reported along Calle Rio Bayamon.
Flooding reported along Calle Aurelio Due o in the 7th section of Levittown.
Flooding reported along Calle Zaragoza in the Urbanization of Villa Espa a.
Mudslide at Barrio Buena Vista PR-829 KM 5.1 in Bayamon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, September 2019
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: 856268, 856269, 856270, 856271, 856272, 856274, 856282.