Alert archive / Hawaii / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Honolulu, HI

October 15, 2002Kauai County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2002, 6:03 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: Oct 15, 2002, 6:03 AM HST (16:03 UTC)
Expired: Oct 15, 2002, 9:00 AM HST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Honolulu, HI
Area: Whole counties

County Kauai County, HI

The nearest sounding before it

Lihue, (PHLI), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGHW50 PHFO 151608
FFWHI 
HIZ003-151900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
603 AM HST TUE OCT 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MAUI

* UNTIL 900 AM HST

* AT 600 AM HST...RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER 
  WEST MAUI...INCLUDING KAANAPALI AND LAHAINA...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST 
  OF KAHULUI...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PUUIKI...HOKUULA...HAMOA...
  PUUKOLII...LAHAINA...PAUWELA...PAIA...LOWER PAIA...HAIKU AND
  PUKALANI

RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES OVER PORTIONS OF 
THE SOUTHERN WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS FROM LAHAINA TO MAALAEA. RAINFALL 
IS NOT STARTING IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF MAUI AND THE SOUTHWEST 
FLANK OF HALEAKALA MAY THE HEAVIEST HIT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF 
HOURS.

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 CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS.

ESCAPE RISING WATER BY CLIMBING DIRECTLY TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY
TO OUTRACE 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 OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE
POLICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$
LAT...LON 2106 15673 2064 15671 2028 15547 2097 15542

FARRELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 15, 3:55 AM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO		3 hr
Oct 15, 4:15 AM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Honolulu	3 hr
Oct 15, 6:55 AM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Honolulu, Kauai	3 hr
Oct 15, 7:52 AM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Honolulu, Kauai	3 hr
Oct 15, 12:52 PM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Honolulu, Kauai	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Hawaii, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.