American Samoa

Storms in American Samoa in 2003

13 events in 11 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in American Samoa in 2003, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

American Samoa in 2003 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over American Samoa

The year

Events
13
Deaths
4
Injuries
6
Damage
$55 million
Episodes
11

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
High Surf500$3.5 million
High Wind300
Flood200$50,000
Rip Current100
Flash Flood146$51 million
Heavy Rain100

Every episode, month by month

January 2003

March 2003

April 2003

May 2003

June 2003

October 2003

December 2003

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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.