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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Honolulu, HI

December 23, 2019Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this high wind watch at Dec 23, 2019, 3:43 PM HST for Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii. It took effect at Dec 24, 2019, 12:00 PM HST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2019, 3:43 PM HST (01:43 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2019, 12:00 PM HST
Expired: Dec 24, 2019, 3:47 AM HST
In force
Issued by: NWS Honolulu, HI

Counties Honolulu County, HI, Kauai County, HI

The radar

The South Kauai radar (PHKI), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 23, 10:29 AM HST, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 10:29 AM HST, 5 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 23, 3:23 PM HST, 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 3:53 PM HST	Gale Watch	HFO		11 hr
Dec 24, 3:18 AM HST	Gale Warning	HFO		36 hr
Dec 24, 3:47 AM HST	Wind Advisory	HFO	Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai	36 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Hawaii, 2019 Every high wind watch in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.