The Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) issued this Sunday a double weather alert for strong storms Which affects 11 departments.
Both are associated with a humid and unstable air mass that affects the country, generating storms that can be strong and/or punctually severe.
In storm zones, intense rains may be recorded in short periods, hail fall, intense electrical activity and very strong gusts of wind.
This warning was issued at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday and is valid until 1:00 p.m., although it can be updated in the event of significant changes.
Main localities under orange alert
Artigas: Baltasar Brum, Cainsa, Colonia Palma and Mones Quintela.
Peach: Centenary.
Paysandu: Beisso, Cerro Chato, Chacras de Paysandú, Chapicuy, Colonia Nuevo Paysandú, Constancia, Esperanza, Gallinal, Guayabos, Guichón, Lorenzo Geyres, Merinos, Orgoroso, Paysandú, Piedras Coloradas, Porvenir, Quebracho, San Félix and Termas de Guaviyú.
Black river: Algorta, General Borges, Grecco, Menafra, Paso de los Mellizos, Sarandí de Navarro, Villa María and Young.
Jump: Albisu, Arapey, Belén, Biassini, Campo de Todos, Cayetano, Cerro de Vera, Colonia 18 de Julio, Colonia Itapebí, Constitución, Garibaldi, Itapebí, Lluveras, Migliaro, Puntas de Valentín, Rincón de Valentín, Salto, San Antonio, Saucedo , Termas del Arapey and Termas del Daymán.
Tacuarembo: Achar, Cerro Chato, Cuchilla de Peralta, Curtina, Paso de los Toros, Piedra Sola, Rincón del Bonete and San Gregorio de Polanco.
Main localities under yellow alert:
Artigas: Bella Unión, Coronado, Diego Lamas, Franquia, Paso Campamento, Portones de Hierro and Campodónico, Santa Rosa del Cuareim, Sequeira and Tomás Gomensoro.
Long Hill: Arbolito, Arévalo, Cerro de las Cuentas, Esperanza, Fraile Muerto, Quebracho, Toledo, Tres Islas and Tupambaé.
Peach: the whole department).
Flowers: Andresito.
Florida: Sauce Chapel and Cerro Chato.
Lavalleja: Jose Pedro Varela.
Paysandu: White House and Drums.
Black river: Bellaco, El Ombú, Gartental and Tres Quintas.Rocha: Cebollati.
Jump: Fernandez and Quintana.
Tacuarembo: Arerungua, Balneario Iporá, Clara, La Pedrera, Paso Bonilla, Sauce de Batoví, Tacuarembó and Tambores.
Thirty-three: Arrocera Zapata, Arrozal Treinta y Tres, Cerro Chato, Ejido de Treinta y Tres, General Enrique Martínez, Isla Patrulla, Maria Albina, Mendizábal, Rincón, Santa Clara de Olimar, Treinta y Tres, Valentines, Vergara and Villa Sara.
Previous alerts
Previously Inumet had issued a double meteorological alert that covered 12 departments of the national territory: Cerro Largo, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja, Paysandú, Río Negro, Rocha, Salto, Soriano, Tacuarembó and Treinta y Tres.
This warning was updated half an hour earlier than expected, around 10:30.
