Lightning, Tutuila
- When
- April 4, 7:30 PM SST
- Where
- Tutuila County, Vaitogi
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Lightning Strike in American Samoa, April 4, 2006
Two teenagers, a 15 year-old girl and a 14 year-old boy, were at home lowering blinds of their guest house when they were both striked by lightning. An area of showers and isolated thunderstorms move over Tutuila during the late afternoon through evening hours of this day.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 ASO wrote it up.
Two teenagers, a 15 year-old girl and a 14 year-old boy, were at home lowering blinds of their guest house when they were both striked by lightning. The boy survived, but his sister died from this incident.An area of showers and isolated thunderstorms move over Tutuila during the late afternoon through evening hours of this day.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Tutuila | 2006-04-29 | 17 | Female | Ball Field | Direct |
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Debris Flow in California, April 4 to 12, 2006
- Flooding in California, April 4 to 5, 2006
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in California, April 4 to 5, 2006
- Winter Storm in Vermont, April 4, 2006
- Winter Storm in Maine, April 4 to 5, 2006
- Flooding in Minnesota, April 4 to 20, 2006
- Flooding in Indiana, April 4 to 14, 2006
- Winter Storm in New Hampshire, April 4 to 5, 2006
- Flooding in California, April 4 to 11, 2006
- High Wind in Virginia, April 4, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 4, 2006
- Wildfire in Texas, April 4 to 5, 2006
More
Every storm in American Samoa in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, April 2006
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: 5520438.