Flash Flood, Tutuila
- When
- August 19, 8:00 PM SST to 11:00 PM SST
- Where
- Tutuila County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Flash Flood in American Samoa, August 19, 1999
Heavy showers caused by a trough of low pressure over Samoa dumped 2 inches of rainfall between 2000 and 2300 causing flooding of low lying areas across the territory.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS ASO wrote it up.
Heavy showers caused by a trough of low pressure over Samoa dumped 2 inches of rainfall between 2000 and 2300 causing flooding of low lying areas across the territory.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, August 19, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, August 19, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 19, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 19, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 19, 1999
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 19, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Utah, August 19, 1999
- Damaging Wind in California, August 19, 1999
- Hail in North Carolina, August 19, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 19 to 26, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 19, 1999
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 19, 1999
More
Every storm in American Samoa in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, August 1999
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5724611.