Overview
- A rare convective front struck Santiago on Tuesday, bringing torrential rain, intense hail, electrical storms and a DMC‑confirmed EF0 tornado in Estación Central that caused local roof and infrastructure damage.
- Senapred declared a regional Alerta Roja to mobilize response teams and later revoked it, maintaining Alerta Amarilla for ten high‑risk communes because soils remain saturated and landslides remain possible.
- Transport and streets were heavily impacted as Metro stations and road underpasses flooded, and emergency closures disrupted lines 1 and 2.
- Power outages affected tens of thousands of customers during the peak of the storm, with SEC reports varying during the emergency (official peak figures reached about 43,000 affected), and crews are working on restoration.
- Officials activated evacuations for riverside camps and vulnerable sectors such as Talagante, suspended classes in several municipalities, and warned that continued monitoring is required as El Niño‑linked heavy rains have left precordillera slopes unstable.