- Flooding took place after a five-month period of above normal rainfall
- Rainfall was due to a Tropical Depression
- There were 42 deaths (31 from Westmoreland)
- Nearly 160,000 persons were affected with up to 40,000 being left homeless and 50,000 suffering significant losses
- Roads, buildings, water supply systems, bridges, agricultural crops and livestock were most affected in Westmoreland, Hanover, St. James and Trelawny
- Sewerage plants and graves were washed out and there was concern that another typhoid outbreak would occur

- There were three days of rains which resulted in severe flooding
- Bridges collapsed, many homes were damaged, and hundreds of families were left homeless
- As a result of flooding, there were six deaths by drowning

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- Affected eastern half of island
- At this time, rains from Hurricane Flora were the heaviest rains for the century and in the recorded history of Jamaica
- The Corporate area was flooded by the continuous downpour. The Sandy Gully drainage scheme was ripped wide open in places
- Rivers had overflowed causing flooding to hundreds of houses. Even some police stations had to be evacuated. Buff Bay River had overflowed its banks and as a result the entire town of Buff Bay was flooded