Heavy Rain · Puerto Rico

Heavy Rain May 13, 2009 · Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Urban flooding was reported along the entrance of Yabucoa's municipality in southeastern Puerto Rico.

The wider storm

A moist and unstable low level flow associated with a slow moving surface trough across Puerto Rico interacted with favorable upper level conditions to produced scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms which produced heavy rainfall across several municipalities.

Began near Yabucoa (18.0450, -65.8694).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 170392. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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