Flash Flood, Manu'A
- When
- January 19, 9:15 PM SST to January 22, 2:30 AM SST
- Where
- Manu'A County, Ta'U
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flash Flooding in American Samoa, January 19 to 22, 2000
Heavy rain associated with a stationary trough of low pressure that extends from a tropical disturbance about 180 NM west of Tutuila eastward across the Manuas cuased widespread flooding across the territory for Thursday (1/21/00) and Friday (1/22/00).
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 rain associated with a stationary trough of low pressure that extends from a tropical disturbance about 180 NM west of Tutuila eastward across the Manuas cuased widespread flooding across the territory for Thursday (1/21/00) and Friday (1/22/00).
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Tutuila
- When
- January 19, 9:15 PM SST to January 22, 2:30 AM SST
- Where
- Tutuila County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
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
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 19, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, January 19, 2000
- Winter Storm in Illinois, January 19, 2000
- Winter Storm in Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 19, 2000
- High Wind in Colorado, January 19, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Indiana, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Winter Storm in Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, January 19 to 20, 2000
More
Every storm in American Samoa in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, January 2000
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: 5132416, 5132417.