Tornadoes · United States · Puerto Rico

1968 tornadoes in Puerto Rico

No tornado was recorded in Puerto Rico in 1968. The state averages 1.3 a year over the 26 years it has any in the record.

1965 1969 The whole country in 1968

What Puerto Rico usually sees

The record has 33 tornadoes in Puerto Rico since 1950, none of them fatal. Every year in Puerto Rico.

Nearby

Every tornado in Puerto Rico since 1950Warnings in force in Puerto RicoThe live radar over Puerto Rico

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.