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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Nov 2, 2000, 7:50 AM HST for Kauai County, Hawaii. It was in force for 3 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 2, 2000, 7:50 AM HST (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 10:50 AM HST
- In force
- 3 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 17:54 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 12:00Z, 5.8 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
- 363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGHW50 PHFO 021749 FFWHI FFWHI HIZ004-008-022050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 750 AM HST THU NOV 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...HILO PUNA AND KAU AREAS BIG ISLAND * UNTIL 1050 AM HST THURSDAY * AT 750 AM HST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS PERSISTENT RGENERATING THUNDERSTORM CELLS CONTINUING OVER THE HILO PUNA AND KAU DISTRICTS. * RAIN GAGES IN THE HILO DISTRICT ARE STILL INDICATING RAINFALL IN THE 1.5 TO 2.5 INCH PER HOUR RATE. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE HILO PUNA AND KAU. 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 WARNING ARE OVER. HILO IS STILL RECEIVING ITS HEAVIEST RAINFALL EVER IN 24 HOURS WITH 26 INCHES INDICATED SO FAR. THE HEAVY THUNDERSHOWERS ARE STATIONARY APPEARING ANCHORED TO THEIR LOCATIONS. THESE CELLS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN LATER THIS MORNING. 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. FARRELL 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 1, 10:50 PM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 6 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:50 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 |
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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.