Heavy Rain — Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

2009-05-13 · near Yabucoa, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

Event narrative

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

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 170392. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.