Synoptic: An active convergence trough moving across the Samoan islands. Moderate to fresh prevailing easterlies bringing hazardous seas across the forecast area.
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.
The episode as NWS ASO wrote it up.
Synoptic: An active convergence trough moving across the Samoan islands. Moderate to fresh prevailing easterlies bringing hazardous seas across the forecast area.
1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
PacIOOS Aunu'u wave buoy observed seas of 9 to 12 feet, translating to 10 to 14 feet of surfs, prompting and maintaining the advisory for high surfs.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in American Samoa in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, October 2018
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 808638.