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Hurricane Warning 2008, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this hurricane warning at Jul 24, 2020, 11:13 PM HST for Honolulu County, Kauai County, Kalawao County, Hawaii. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 24, 2020, 11:13 PM HST (09:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2020, 10:36 AM HST
- In force
- 59 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
Counties Honolulu County, HI, Kalawao County, HI, Kauai County, HI
The radar
The Molokai radar (PHMO), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this hurricane 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 hurricane warning went out at Jul 24, 5:33 PM HST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 5:33 PM HST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:50 PM HST | High Surf Warning | HFO | Honolulu, Kalawao | 61 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:13 PM HST | Tropical Storm Warning | HFO | Hawaii, Kauai, Kalawao | 39 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:42 AM HST | Tropical Storm Watch | HFO | Kauai | 12 hr |
Nearby
Hurricane Warnings in Hawaii, 2020Every hurricane warning in 2020
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.