Tornado in Puerto Rico
Every tornado event the National Weather Service has filed in Puerto Rico, year by year, with the most significant episodes. A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
The most significant on the map
The most significant tornado episodes in Puerto Rico.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 26
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $694,000
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 30, 1974
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, July 27, 2019The combination of strong daytime and sea breeze convergence along with extreme instability resulted in the development of a strong thunderstorm across the municipality of Lajas during the late afternoon hours.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, August 9, 2023The combination of abundant tropical moisture from a departing tropical wave interacting with an upper-level trough north of the region produced strong afternoon thunderstorms over northwestern Puerto Rico on the 9th of August.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 7, 2011The National Weather Service conducted a storm damage survey that occurred from route PR-125 to the southwest town of Moca through Barrio Cruz to route PR-111 on the east side of town.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, March 16, 2023A frontal passage produced a weak landspout over the eastern interior of Puerto Rico.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 6, 2007Upper level low in the vicinity of the local area produced an unstable airmass which combined with light winds, and resulted in favorable conditions for strong thunderstorms to develop over the western section of Puerto Rico during the afternoon.
- Tornado and Flood in Puerto Rico, May 1, 2022An inverted surface trough, deep tropical moisture, and an upper-level trough led to the development of strong to severe thunderstorms over north-central Puerto Rico during the afternoon hours of May 1st, 2022.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, July 16, 2023A strong thunderstorm developed over northwestern Puerto Rico on July 16th and produced a tornado near Road 411 on the border of Barrio Asomante and Barrio Guayabo around 3:08 PM AST and lasted around 11 minutes.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, June 15, 2006Mayaguez City emergency managers reported a tornado touched down at the SAM's parking lot at the Western Plaza in Mayaguez. The funnel cloud originated inland near Cerro Las Mesas and traveled west towards Barrio El Mani. One tree was uprooted and one automobile was damaged.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 13, 2012An upper level low northeast of Puerto Rico, combined with daytime heating and local effects to produced scattered to numerous showers with isolated strong thunderstorms over the western interior section of Puerto Rico.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, June 3, 2001Emergency Managers indicated that a weak tornado affected a community in Anasco. Several houses had their roofs detached and their fences knocked down. In addition, a power company station exploded.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, June 22, 2005A tornado was reported in the municipality of Aguadilla, in Barrio Guerrero. The tornado developed within a thunderstorm over northwest Moca, likely moved northwest, and touched down twice across eastern Aguadilla. 12 homes lost their zinc roofs.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 25, 2009A tropical wave passed to the north of Puerto Rico and produced scattered showers and isolated strong thunderstorms across the northwest section.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, May 1, 1995A small tornado touched down in a vacant field near Los Filtros Avenue and the 7up Bottling Company at Guaynabo. Lots of debris and dust was flung into the air.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 8, 1999A Roosevelt Roads Navy Base personnel reported a waterspout that made a brief landfall and dissipated shortly near the airport base.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, July 20, 1999Civil Defense indicated that a tornado was sighted seven miles southwest of Cresta Blanca sector near road 301.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 6, 1999Civil Defense indicated that they received calls of a tornado in northern Cabo Rojo for a brief period of time. No damage was reported.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, February 23, 2000A Civil Defense official reported a a tornado along the Caguas expressway.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, August 25, 2000Residents in Adjuntas reported a small tornado. Some trees were knocked down and some furniture were thrown around.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, October 4, 2002Emergency Managers reported that a resident of Aguada, Malpaso sector, sighted a tornado. A house was affected as the zinc roof was detached from the rest of the house.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, October 16, 2004Spotter reported F0 tornado along northwest part of Cabo Rojo.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, October 1, 2013Upper level trough combined with strong daytime heating and sea breeze convergence to produce scattered to numerous showers with strong thunderstorms mainly over the western section of Puerto Rico.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, November 18, 2016Copious amount of tropical moisture trailing a tropical wave, moving across the Mona Passage along with a pre-frontal trough and a frontal boundary just to the Northwest of the region, allowed for deep pooling of moisture across the region.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, March 26, 2017A surface low pressure north of Hispanola induced a moist and convectively unstable air mass over Puerto Rico. This southerly flow interacted with the island topography enhancing the low-level convergence along and downwind of the Cordillera Central.
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, September 30, 2019Sufficient low-level moisture combined with strong daytime heating and local effects to generate showers and thunderstorms across portions of northern Puerto Rico as the steering flow was from the south.
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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.