Alert archive / Hawaii / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2002, 7:52 AM HST for Honolulu County, 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, 7:52 AM HST (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2002, 10:45 AM HST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Honolulu County, HI, Kauai County, HI
The nearest sounding before it
Lihue, (PHLI), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGHW50 PHFO 151758 FFWHI HIZ003-006-152045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 752 AM HST TUE OCT 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LANAI MAUI * UNTIL 1045 AM HST * AT 748 AM HST...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LANAI CITY...OR ABOUT 42 MILES SOUTH OF KAUNAKAKAI...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LANAI CITY...OLOWALU...HAIKU... KULA AND KIHEI RAIN MAY BE VERY HEAVY IN THE WATCH AREA...THE RAINGAGE AT KULA INDICATED 1.29 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE 15 MINUTES ENDED AT 700 AM THIS MORNING. 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. THIS WILL CONSOLIDATE AND REPLACE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR MAUI AND LANAI. 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. $$ FARRELL
3 follow-up statements
000 WGHW70 PHFO 151809 FFSHI HIZ003-006-151905- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 805 AM HST TUE OCT 15 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM HST FOR MAUI AND LANAI... THE LATEST RAINFALL REPORTS SHOW 1.29 INCHES IN THE 15 MINUTES ENDED AT 700 AM AT KULA RAINGAGE. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN OCCURRING OVER MAUI... WITH AS MUCH AS 2 TO 4 INCHES IN MANY AREAS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION. $$ FARRELL
000 WGHW70 PHFO 151857 FFSHI HIZ003-006-151955- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 855 AM HST TUE OCT 15 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM HST FOR MAUI AND LANAI... THE LATEST RAINFALL REPORTS FROM MAUI SHOW 3.22 INCHES AT WAIKAPU... 3.40 INCHES AT LAHAINALUNA...2.66 INCHES AT MAHINAHINA AND 2.63 INCHES AT THE KIHEI GAGE AND 2.05 INCHES AT HAIKU IN THE PAST SIX HOURS. LANAI CITY GAGE INDICATES 3.34 INCHES IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD. RADAR INDICATES THAT MOST ALL THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS NOW MOVED OFFSHORE OF MAUI...INTO THE ALENUIHAHA CHANNEL. HOWEVER...ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS NOW SOME 40 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF MAUI... AND THIS AREA IS MOVING TOWARD EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS SHOULD IMPACT MAUI WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION. $$ FARRELL
000 WGHW70 PHFO 152046 FFSHI HIZ003-006-152135- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1035 AM HST TUE OCT 15 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR MAUI...LANAI HAS EXPIRED... ...THE FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MAUI...LANAI REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM HST... THE BAND OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS TO BE STATIONARY TO THE SOUTH OF MAUI AND LANAI. WHILE SHOWERS WILL CONINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF THESE ISLANDS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...NO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING THAT IS NOT IMMINENT BUT IS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION. $$ 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, 6:03 AM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Kauai | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 6:55 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
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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.