Flood in American Samoa, February 14, 2001

Name: Flood in American Samoa, February 14, 2001
Start: 2001-02-14T14:00
End: 2001-02-14T20:00
Location: American Samoa

February 14, 2001 · NWS ASO · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, 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 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Tutuila

When: February 14, 2:00 PM SST to 8:00 PM SST
Where: Tutuila County, Countywide
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

An active torugh of low pressure southwest of Samoa occasionally spread heavy showers over Tutuila w in the last 36 hours with heavier showers occurring from 2 PM to 8 Pm Wednesday February 14, 2001. These heavy showers caused minor flooding of streams and low lying areas along the roadways due to both havy showers and heavy runoffs. No major damages were reported apart from debris washed onto the roads public parks.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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, February 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: 5236160.