Alert archive / Hawaii / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Feb 9, 2001, 8:36 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
- Feb 9, 2001, 8:36 AM HST (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2001, 11:35 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 18:37 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, 6.6 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
- 976 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGHW50 PHFO 091836 FFWHI HIZ001-092135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 835 AM HST FRI FEB 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KAUAI INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF...HANALEI...WAINIHA AND PRINCEVILLE * UNTIL 1135 AM HST * AT 835 AM HST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER MOUNT WAIALEALE ON KAUIA AND THESE WERE DUMPING HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THAT ISLAND * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...HANALEI... WAINIHA AND PRINCEVILLE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN NORMALLY DRY STREAMBEDS DURING THE NEXT THREE HOURS. PERSONS IN LOW-LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. PERSON ON KAUAI SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND OR REMAIN INDOORS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING AND SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FAST FLOWING OR RISING WATER...MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS TRY TO CROSS 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. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LIGHTNING IS A LEADING KILLER AND PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO AVOID BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. STAY OUT FROM UNDER TALL TREES AND AWAY FROM THE OCEAN AND BEACHES IF LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. DO NOT TOUCH OR REMAIN CLOSE TO METAL POLES OR FENCES. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 11:15 PM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | 3 hr | |
| Feb 9, 12:35 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | 3 hr | |
| Feb 9, 8:54 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Feb 9, 9:34 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | 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.