Rip Current in American Samoa, April 28 to 30, 2001

Name: Rip Current in American Samoa, April 28 to 30, 2001
Start: 2001-04-28T06:00
End: 2001-04-30T16:00
Location: American Samoa

April 28 to 30, 2001 · NWS ASO · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Tutuila

When: April 28, 6:00 AM SST to April 30, 4:00 PM SST
Where: Tutuila County, Countywide
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

Another stong low pressure in a series of systems which developed west of New Zealand and then moved east again genearted strong swell which produce surf of 10 to 15 feet along south shores of American Samoa. These highs surf create strong rip currents caused some minor coastal flooding at Matu'y, Leloaloa and Aua. Except for clear up work for sand and debris washed onto the roads, very little damages was reported.

What these are

Rip Current: A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in American Samoa in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in American Samoa, April 2001

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: 5238473.