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Central America and Mexico - Floods and Hurricanes

Regional Team: LAC

Disaster Declared: multiple

Brief Description: On October 4, Hurricane Stan made landfall south of Veracruz, Mexico, with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour before weakening to a tropical storm and generating separate storms across southern Mexico and Central America. The heavy rainfall associated with these storms caused widespread and severe flooding that has affected millions of people across Central America, including in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and Costa Rica. In addition, the Santa Ana (Ilamatepec) volcano in northwestern El Salvador erupted on October 1, spewing hot rocks and plumes of ash 15 kilometers (km) into the air, forcing the evacuation of 7,000 local residents and resulting in two deaths.

FY2006

• 11-23-2005 FY2006 Hurricane Fact Sheet #3(66kb PDF)(map)
• 11-10-2005 FY2006 Hurricane Fact Sheet #2(66kb PDF)(map)
• 11-7-2005 FY2006 Hurricane Fact Sheet #1(64kb PDF)(map)
• 10-28-2005 Fact Sheet #5(49kb PDF)(map)
• 10-21-2005 Fact Sheet #4(49kb PDF)
• 10-18-2005 Fact Sheet #3(53kb PDF)(map)
• 10-17-2005 Press Release
• 10-13-2005 Fact Sheet #2(50kb PDF)
• 10-12-2005 Fact Sheet #1(48kb PDF)