Alert archive / Hawaii / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 2005, 8:34 PM HST for Kauai County, Hawaii. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2005, 8:34 PM HST (06:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2005, 9:30 PM HST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kauai County, HI
The nearest sounding before it
Lihue, (PHLI), launched 00:00Z, 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUHW50 PHFO 090634 SVRHFO HIC007-090730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 832 PM HST SAT JAN 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... THE ISLAND OF KAUAI IN KAUAI COUNTY * UNTIL 930 PM HST * AT 828 PM HST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KALALAU VALLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTH OF MANA BY 840 PM HST KEKAHA BY 845 PM HST WAIMEA BY 850 PM HST HANAPEPE AND PORT ALLEN BY 855 PM HST KALAHEO AND 7 MILES WEST OF KOLOA BY 900 PM HST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 2234 16005 2160 16029 2135 15927 2248 15913 $$ FARRELL
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Honolulu, HI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 8, 8:30 PM HST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 8:30 PM HST, 4 minutes before
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 830 PM HST SAT JAN 8 2005 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL PASS OVER KAUAI TONIGHT. THE FRONT WITH POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH OAHU IN THE EARLY MORNING...THEN MOVE DOEN THE ISLAND CHAIN TO EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND BY MONDAY. SUNNY AND DRY WEATHER WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT. && .DISCUSSION... AN APPARANT DOUBLE COLD FRONT IS APPROACHING KAUAI FROM THE WEST. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...IS ABOUT 45 MILES WEST OF BARKING SANDS AT 800 PM AND MOVING EASTWARD AT SOME 40 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE WIND GUST IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME MAY CONTAIN HAIL. THE SECOND COLD FRONT IS STILL OVER 375 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF KAUAI AND IS MARKED BY LINES OF SHOWERS. THESE TWO FRONTS ARE EXPECTED TO MERGE...AS THE FIRST ONE...MUCH STRONGER THAN THE SECOND... DOMINATES. THESE FRONTS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE DOWN THE ISLAND CHAIN OVERNIGHT AND ON SUNDAY...REACHING THE BIG ISLAND ON SUNDAY. THE STRONG CONVECTION NOW JUST WEST OF KAUAI IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AS THE FRONT MOVES DOWN THE ISLAND CHAIN. HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY FRONTAL FEATURES...BUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL BE MOVING ALONG AT A DECENT CLIP...SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR NEXT WEEK...ONCE THE FRONT MOVES AWAY FROM THE BIG ISLAND. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR KAUAI && FARRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 6:31 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 59 min | |
| Jan 8, 7:35 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 55 min | |
| Jan 8, 8:26 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 64 min | |
| Jan 8, 9:00 PM HST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HFO | Kauai | 60 min |
| Jan 8, 9:55 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 65 min | |
| Jan 8, 10:52 PM HST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HFO | Honolulu | 53 min |
| Jan 8, 11:06 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 54 min | |
| Jan 8, 11:50 PM HST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HFO | Honolulu | 55 min |
| Jan 8, 11:56 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 64 min | |
| Jan 9, 12:55 AM HST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HFO | Honolulu | 65 min |
| Jan 9, 1:03 AM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 57 min | |
| Jan 9, 1:55 AM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 65 min | |
| Jan 9, 2:58 AM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 62 min |
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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.