Rip Current in American Samoa, August 11 to 15, 2002

Name: Rip Current in American Samoa, August 11 to 15, 2002
Start: 2002-08-11T18:00
End: 2002-08-15T15:00
Location: American Samoa

August 11 to 15, 2002 · 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 11, 6:00 PM SST to August 15, 3:00 PM SST
Where: Tutuila County, Countywide
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

Another high surf episode caused by heavy swell created by another winter storm that moved eastward off of New Zealand . The high surf along south shores of Tutuila again caused strong rip currrents along most of south shores but most especially from Nuu'uli to Fagaalu. No significat damages except for some unhappy campers (surfers) as some beached were off limits to the public.

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 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in American Samoa, August 2002

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: 5312037.