Rip Current in American Samoa, August 1 to 4, 2001

Name: Rip Current in American Samoa, August 1 to 4, 2001
Start: 2001-08-01T00:00
End: 2001-08-04T12:00
Location: American Samoa

August 1 to 4, 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: August 1, 12:00 AM SST to August 4, 12:00 PM SST
Where: Tutuila County, Countywide
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

A strong high pressure persisted far south of Samoa for more than a week has generated moderate to high swell which produced surf of 10 to 18 feetg in the end of July and the first three days of August. Thes high surf were res;onsible closing of most of the beaches from Vasaaiga to Fagaalu and from Laulio to Cape Matatula due to strong rip currents and rough seas. The surf slowly subsided as the ridge of high pressure weaken and moved eastward.

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

Every storm in American Samoa in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in American Samoa, August 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: 5262445.