Flash Flood · Virgin Islands

Flash Flood May 8, 2024 · St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

$3K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Runoff was flooding road RT-30 near the Cyril E. King Airport.

The wider storm

Saturated soils from the previous rainfall events enhanced the risk of flooding, as another mid to upper-level trough lingered across the region. With increased instability across the Northeast Caribbean, and as a surface high pressure migrated from the western to central Atlantic, moisture was pooled into the region, with total precipitable water values well above the climatological value for these dates. Sections of the Virgin Islands collected more than 5' in a couple of days.

Began near St Thomas (18.3407, -64.9717).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1185028. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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