Flash Flood · Puerto Rico

Flash Flood May 14, 2013 · Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

A bridge collapsed due to a creek out of its banks and families were uncommunicated.

The wider storm

An upper level trough combined with strong daytime heating, orographic affects and a southeast wind flow at the surface, to produce persistent showers with torrential rainfall mainly over the southeast section of Puerto Rico.

Began near Yabucoa (18.0586, -65.8765).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 457174. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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