Upon designation as a potential tropical cyclone late on June 27, a Tropical Storm Warning was posted for Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. These warnings were cancelled by 09:00 UTC on June 29.
Trinidad and Tobago An orange level tropical storm warning was issued by the national meteorological office. Schools were closed on June 28 for non-
CAPE students and were to resume the next day. Several domestic flights to and from the United States, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname,
St. Maarten, and
Curaçao by carrier
Caribbean Airlines were cancelled or delayed. The government of Trinidad and Tobago considered allowing public sector employees to work remotely under weather alerts. Government buildings closed at noon on June 28, but several private businesses closed earlier. Ferry services to
Tobago were called off and the last ferry to leave for
San Fernando departed from
Port of Spain on the afternoon of June 28. A total of 387 shelters were prepared for the storm, 712 municipal officers were deployed to ensure safety of vehicles parked at these facilities. Trinidad and Tobago was left with mostly minimal damage from the potential tropical cyclone, with some areas receiving heavy rainfall and flash flooding. On the island of
Tobago, emergency agencies received two reports of roof damage, four of downed trees, one of a vehicle accident, and a collapsed home. A 79-year-old woman who was inside the wooden home which collapsed on the morning of June 29 escaped unharmed but lost all belongings in her home which she had owned for over 20 years. Nesting sites of
leatherback turtles at beaches in
Grande Riviere were severely impacted by floodwaters, washing away thousands of eggs. At least 40 homes in the village were flooded; flooding up to deep scattered organic debris across the beach. Several mudslides and rockfalls occurred along a road linking the villages of Monte Video and
Matelot. More than 200,000 customers nationwide lost access to drinking water, which affected 26 communities and several water treatment facilities.
Mexico Hurricane Bonnie, as a Category 3 system, prompted Mexican authorities to issue warnings of heavy rainfall to the states of
Colima, Guerrero,
Jalisco, and
Michoacán as it advanced inland. Authorities in Mexico warned of heavy rainfall in several states, and warned of waves of up to 3 to 5 meters in the coasts of the states of
Oaxaca and
Guerrero. Bonnie weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and was expected to become a tropical storm after going north, off the coasts of
Cabo San Lucas, in the state of
Baja California Sur.
Elsewhere In Costa Rica, 3,572 people had been evacuated in different parts of the country to shelters, after registering flooding and landslides. Furthermore, 15 cantons were under a red alert, and 8,593 homes were left without power. Damages were at
₡250 million (US$365,000), though this was calculated before Bonnie struck the country. In Grenada, electricity providers warned citizens to prepare for power outages and to not touch downed power lines. In
Chiriquí Province, Panama, several families were evacuated due to landslides and heavy rainfall. In Colombia, the government warned the
Island of San Andrés, while in neighboring Venezuela, classes and flights were suspended. Meanwhile, the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras issued alerts to their whole territories for the storm. In Nicaragua, authorities reported four deaths in relation to the storm. Bonnie was also responsible for one death in El Salvador as it emerged into the
Pacific Basin. ==See also==