Rip Current, Manu'A
- When
- September 3, 3:00 PM SST to September 6, 11:00 PM SST
- Where
- Manu'A County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Rip Current in American Samoa, September 3 to 6, 1999
High surf of up to 15 feet bounded the south shores of American Samoa causing strong rip currents from Vasaaiga to Fagaalu on Tutuila and all south shores of the Manua Islands.
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.
High surf of up to 15 feet bounded the south shores of American Samoa causing strong rip currents from Vasaaiga to Fagaalu on Tutuila and all south shores of the Manua Islands.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Utah, September 3, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, September 3, 1999
- Hail in Utah, September 3, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, September 3, 1999
- Funnel Clouds and Waterspouts in Texas, September 3 to 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 3, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 3, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, September 3, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, September 3, 1999
- Flood in South Dakota, September 3, 1999
- Flood in South Dakota, September 3 to 30, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Texas, September 3, 1999
More
Every storm in American Samoa in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, September 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: 5724613.