Rip Current, Rota
- When
- March 4, 4:00 PM SST
- Where
- Rota forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Rip Current in Guam, March 4, 2006
A 43-year-old man was apparently overcome by rip currents at Swimming Hole Beach on Rota and drowned. His body was found just outside the reef.
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 43-year-old man was apparently overcome by rip currents at Swimming Hole Beach on Rota and drowned. His body was found just outside the reef.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 12:34 PM SST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU 1000 AM GUAM LST SUN MAR 5 2006 PMZ161-171-051200- KOROR PALAU-YAP- 1000 AM GUAM LST SUN MAR 5 2006 ...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR PALAU AND YAP... TROPICAL STORM 01W MAY BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TO THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU AND YAP STATE ON MONDAY. T 7 AM GUAM LST...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM 01W WAS ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 6.8 DEGREES NORTH AND LONGITUDE 137.7 DEGREES EAST. THIS IS ABOUT 230 MILES EAST OF KOROR...105 MILES SOUTH OF NGULU AND 190 MILES SOUTH OF YAP. TROPICAL STORM 01W IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 9 MPH...AND IS EXPECTED TO TURN TO A MORE WESTERLY TRACK AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THIS FORECAST TRACK WOULD TAKE TROPICAL STORM 01W BETWEEN KOROR AND KAYANGEL EARLY MONDAY MORNING. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY ON NGULU AND ON MONDAY OVER YAP ISLAND AND PORTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU. RAINFALL TOTALS COULD REACH 4 INCHES. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KOROR AND KAYANGEL IN THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES OR COMMUNICATION DEVICES. ZIOBRO
Event by event
1 rip current. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Rota | 2006-03-04 | 43 | 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
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- Frost and Freeze in California, March 4, 2006
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 4, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 4, 2006
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 4, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 4, 2006
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 4, 2006
- High Wind in Oregon, March 4, 2006
- Hail in Nebraska, March 4, 2006
More
Every storm in Guam in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Guam, March 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: 5492774.