2 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy showers dumped 2.09 inches of rainfall in less than 4 hours causing flooding of low lying areas and streets. The heavy showers and runoffs caused overflow of streams and flooding of strees and low lying areas. Except for debris being washed onto the streets, no major damages were reported.
Residences of Tau reported heavy runoffs and landslide at the Auauuli due to heavy showers.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in American Samoa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, May 2002
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: 5289034, 5289035.