Flood · Puerto Rico

Flood September 17, 2009 · Moca, Puerto Rico

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Sector La Cruz and El Coco at road 110 in the municipality of Moca were flooded due to Culebrinas River out of its banks. The USGS sensor indicated the river rose to a stage of 28.52 feet, exceeding the flood stage of 24 feet at Highway 404 near Moca.

The wider storm

Heavy rain was observed across the west interior, west and southwest sections during the afternoon. USGS sensors and doppler radar rainfall estimates indicated near two to four inches which caused moderate flooding of the Culebrinas river between Moca and Aguada during the early evening.

Began near Moca (18.3795, -67.1205).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 190182. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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