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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 2013, 1:50 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
- Nov 8, 2013, 1:50 AM HST (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2013, 4:45 AM HST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Kauai County, HI
The radar
The South Kauai radar (PHKI), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 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 00:00Z, 11.8 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 Nov 8, 12:15 AM HST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 12:15 AM HST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2:12 PM HST | Areal Flood Advisory | HFO | Honolulu | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 5:02 PM HST | Areal Flood Advisory | HFO | Honolulu | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 7:24 PM HST | Flash Flood Warning | HFO | Honolulu | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 12:51 AM HST | Areal Flood Advisory | HFO | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.