Large southerly swells produced dangerous rip currents and high surfs for the territory.
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.
Large southerly swells produced dangerous rip currents and high surfs for the territory.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong rip currents swept out at sea two village boys from Amanave. Thankfully the boys had a surf board with them, which made it possible for rescue within a two-hour window.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in American Samoa in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in American Samoa, April 2022
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: 1019238.