Rip Current in Guam, October 2, 2005

Name: Rip Current in Guam, October 2, 2005
Start: 2005-10-02T16:30
End: 2005-10-02T16:30
Location: Guam

October 2, 2005 · NWS GUA · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A man drowned after he was swept over the reef by strong currents while body boarding.

The toll

Deaths: 1
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.

What happened

The episode as NWS GUA wrote it up.

A man drowned after he was swept over the reef by strong currents while body boarding.

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 Oct 2, 3:55 PM SST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 3:55 PM SST, 35 minutes before

AREA SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU
1 PM GUAM LST MON OCT 3 2005

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

A MONSOON TROUGH EXTENDS FROM A CIRCULATION WELL NORTHWEST OF PALAU
NEAR 13N131E TO ANOTHER WEAK CIRCULATION NEAR CHUUK...THEN CONTINUES
EASTWARD TO 7N164E. POCKETS OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF THE MONSOON TROUGH ARE FOUND WEST OF CHUUK
BETWEEN 4N AND 9N FROM 147E TO 149E.

UPPER-LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND TRADE WIND CONVERGENCE NORTHWEST OF THE
MARIANAS ARE PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY 22N133E TO 22N144E TO 16N150E TO GUAM TO
16N133E BACK TO 22N133E...INCLUDING THE MARIANAS NORTH OF GUAM.

TRADE-WIND CONVERGENCE IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHWEST OF WAKE ISLAND BETWEEN 11N AND 15N FROM 156E
TO 166E...AND ALSO SOUTHEAST OF WAKE ISLAND WITHIN 200 MILES OF A
LINE FROM 16N171E TO 7N180.

A WEAK SURFACE CIRCULATION SOUTHWEST OF MAJURO NEAR 5N169E COUPLED
WITH DIVERGENCE ALOFT IS GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 2N AND 8N FROM 163E TO 176E...INCLUDING
KWAJALEIN...KOSRAE AND MAJURO.

Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Guam

When: October 2, 4:30 PM SST
Where: Guam County, Inarajan
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Rip Current, Guam	2005-10-02	34	Male	In Water	Direct

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 Guam in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Guam, October 2005

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: 5476539.