Rip Current, Guam
- When
- January 16, 5:15 PM SST to 6:30 PM SST
- Where
- Guam County, Talofofo
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Rip Current in Guam, January 16, 2000
A 15 year old girl, Janella Iglesias, dies in the currents at First Beach In Ipan Talafofo. S.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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.
A 15 year old girl, Janella Iglesias, dies in the currents at First Beach In Ipan Talafofo. At 1719 Guam Fire Department call the U.S. Coast Guard for assistance for three swimmers over the reef in Talafofo. The Coast Guard dispatched a HC-5 helicopter. At 1811 thehelicopter spotted Iglesias in the water. She did not have a pulse and was not breathing at the time. The two others, a teenage girl and boy, managed to swim back to shore. During their ordeal they sustained cuts and bruises. The three were walking along the reef when a wave smashed into them and the reef and then carried them into the open ocean.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Guam | 2000-01-16 | 15 | Female | In Water | Direct |
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
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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: 5143786.