1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
An intense and slow moving low pressure area which was moving eastward off of New Zealand produce heavy swell which caused surf up to 15 feet for more than a week bounding south shores of Tutuila. There no major damages except some delayed cuase to road work being done a Avau Point.
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