Flash Flood · Puerto Rico

Flash Flood September 15, 2012 · Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

Deaths

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Two young men were swept away by a sharp rise in the Guayanilla river in Barrio Jaguapasto. The two young men were found later dead.

The wider storm

The combination of good moisture and instability, combined with local effects and an upper level trough to produced scattered to numerous showers with thunderstorms mainly over the interior and southwest sections of Puerto Rico.

Began near Guayanilla (18.0136, -66.7823).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 414692. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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