Name: Rip Current in Guam, July 6, 2001
Start: 2001-07-06T16:10
End: 2001-07-06T18:00
Location: Guam

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
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.

Rescue workers were able to save a male surfer who went over the reef near Ritidian Point. James Glynn, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services acting manager, said he called the U.S. Coast Guard at 1615 when he received word that two males were boggie boarding,and one had made it back to shore. A helicopter from the Navy's HC-5 squadron hoisted the individual, whose name and age were notavailable, out of the water and took him to Naval Hospital. Immediately after the individual arrived he was transferred by ambulance toGuam Memorial Hospital. The young man was reported in stable Condition. Rescue units from the Guam Fire Department and Andersen Air Force Base Fire Department participated in the rescue. The swells that generated the Hazardous Surf conditions was generated byTropical Storm Utor, which passed west of the Mariana Islands.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS GUA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 4:09 PM SST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 4:09 PM SST, 1 minute before

AREA SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU
1 PM GUAM LST SAT JUL 7 2001

WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BETWEEN EQUATOR AND 25N FROM 130E TO 180.

LOW-LEVEL WINDS CONVERGING AROUND A WEAK CIRCULATION CENTERED NEAR
11N133E ARE CREATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
BETWEEN 5N AND 15N FROM 130E TO 140E. THIS AREA INCLUDES PALAU AND
YAP.

LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE OF SOUTHERLY AND EASTERLY WINDS IS CREATING A
LARGE BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12N140E TO
15N140E TO 17N145E TO 14N154E TO 8N151E TO 8N147E BACK TO 12N140E.
THIS AREA INCLUDES GUAM AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

THE CONVERGENCE OF LOW LEVEL WINDS AROUND A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
CENTERED NEAR 23N164E IS GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 16N AND 23N FROM 165E TO 175E. THIS AREA
INCLUDES WAKE ISLAND. A SHEAR LINE EXTENDS WESTWARD FROM THE LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING
WITHIN 100 MILES OF A LINE FROM 19N150E TO 19N162E.

AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS BETWEEN
18N AND 21N FROM 138E TO 150E.

A TRADE WIND DISTURBANCE IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN THE EQUATOR AND 10N FROM 160E TO
175E...INCLUDING KOSRAE AND MAJURO.

Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Guam

When: July 6, 4:10 PM SST to 6:00 PM SST
Where: Guam County, Ritidian Point
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

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

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: 5259794.