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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Honolulu, HI

December 19, 2010Honolulu County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2010, 12:21 PM HST for Honolulu 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
Dec 19, 2010, 12:21 PM HST (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Dec 19, 2010, 3:15 PM HST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Honolulu, HI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Honolulu County, HI

The radar

The Molokai radar (PHMO), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lihue, at 12:00Z on 2010-12-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lihue, at 12:00Z on 2010-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Dec 19, 10:44 AM HST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 10:44 AM HST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 18, 3:38 PM HSTHigh Surf AdvisoryHFOHonolulu, Kauai, Kalawao60 hr
Dec 18, 7:53 PM HSTFlash Flood WatchHFOHawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, Kalawao4 days
Dec 18, 11:44 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKauai3 hr
Dec 19, 3:32 AM HSTWinter Weather AdvisoryHFOHawaii5 hr
Dec 19, 5:32 AM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu3 hr
Dec 19, 8:14 AM HSTWinter Weather AdvisoryHFOHawaii68 hr
Dec 19, 8:29 AM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu6 hr
Dec 19, 8:42 AM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFOKalawao3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Hawaii, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.