High Surf in American Samoa, December 3 to 7, 2001

Name: High Surf in American Samoa, December 3 to 7, 2001
Start: 2001-12-03T09:00
End: 2001-12-07T03:00
Location: American Samoa

December 3 to 7, 2001 · NWS ASO · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high surf, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $200,000
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 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.

High Surf, Tutuila

When: December 3, 9:00 AM SST to December 7, 3:00 AM SST
Where: Tutuila County, Countywide
Property damage: $200,000
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

High surf generated by an intense low pressure area far south of Samoa washed out a temporary access road at Avau Point which cost about $200,000.00 to construct. This access road was constructed to divert traffic to allow the Department of Public Works to make permament fixutre to the road damage by lad slide casued the the heavy showers in November. The exceptionally high surf were reported through out the south shores of the Tutuila. No othelr major damages were reported besides debris being washed onto the roads along lower coastal areas.

What these are

High Surf: Large waves breaking on the shore that caused damage, erosion or casualties.

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, December 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: 5274386.