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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Nov 1, 2000, 10:50 PM HST for Kauai County, Hawaii. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 2000, 10:50 PM HST (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 4:50 AM HST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kauai County, HI
The radar
The South Kauai radar (PHKI), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lihue, (PHLI), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGHW50 PHFO 020850 FFWHI FFWHI HIZ004-008-021150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1050 PM HST WED NOV 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST TO SOUTHEAST BIG ISLAND FROM LAPAHOEHOE TO HILO ACROSS THE VOLCANO AREA TO TO SOUTH POINT * UNTIL 150 AM HST THURSDAY * AT 1050 PM HST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SLOW MOVING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM PEPEEKEO SOUTHWARD TO PAHALA. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE ALL ALONG THE ABOVE THUNDERSTORM LINE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT DANGEROUS FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING. TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY AND CONTINUE PRECAUTIONS UNTIL THE THREAT AND THE WARNING ARE OVER. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FAST FLOWING OR RISING WATER...MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS TRY CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS. ESCAPE RISING WATER BY CLIMBING DIRECTLY TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A FLOOD EITHER ON FOOT OR IN YOUR VEHICLE. DO NOT CAMP NEAR STREAMS OR OTHER AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION. MATSUDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 7:58 PM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 1, 10:50 PM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:50 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 7:50 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 8:25 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Honolulu, Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 8:52 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Honolulu, Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 11:12 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 11:31 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Honolulu, Kauai | 3 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.