Rip Current, Guam
- When
- February 7, 9:20 AM SST to 11:00 AM SST
- Where
- Guam County, Asan
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Rip Current in Guam, February 7, 1999
On the 7th the Hazardous surf and strong currents caused by strong northwest swells continued across the Marianas Islands. Rescue units received a call around 0920 that two divers were in distress in the waters just north of the War in the Pacific National Historic Park in Asan.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- 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 GUA wrote it up.
On the 7th the Hazardous surf and strong currents caused by strong northwest swells continued across the Marianas Islands. Rescue units received a call around 0920 that two divers were in distress in the waters just north of the War in the Pacific National Historic Park in Asan. When rescuers arrived at the scene one of the divers had made it to shore. The other man was still caught in the channel. Rescuers pulled him from the water. The two men suffered minor injuries.
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in California, February 7 to 9, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, February 7, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 7, 1999
- Strong Wind in Kentucky, February 7, 1999
- Strong Wind in Illinois, February 7, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 7 to 16, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, February 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, February 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, February 7, 1999
- High Wind in Kentucky, February 7, 1999
- Dense Fog in Florida, February 7, 1999
- High Wind in Nevada, February 7, 1999
More
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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: 5697299.