Flash Flood · Puerto Rico

Flash Flood April 8, 2024 · Orocovis, Puerto Rico

$5K

Damage as recorded

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Flash flooding was reported by municipal officials along portions of rio Orocovis near the city town in road 568 and in Sector Bajuras. No people trapped were reported.

The wider storm

Increase in moisture, remnants of a cold front to our north and a nearby prefrontal surface trough approached the islands and sinked southward, creating favorable weather

conditions for unsettled weather and above normal moisture. These wet and unstable conditions promoted showery weather for the first half of that week. Flooding, Flash Flooding and Landslides were reported.

Began near Orocovis (18.2279, -66.3911).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167351. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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