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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Honolulu, HI

November 17, 2022Kalawao County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at Nov 17, 2022, 9:02 PM HST for Kalawao County, Hawaii. It was in force for 107 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
Nov 17, 2022, 9:02 PM HST (07:02 UTC)
Expired
Nov 17, 2022, 10:49 PM HST
In force
107 min
Issued by
NWS Honolulu, HI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Kalawao County, HI

The radar

The Molokai radar (PHMO), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 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

Hilo, (PITO), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Hilo, at 00:00Z on 2022-11-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1311 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, Hilo, at 00:00Z on 2022-11-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 Nov 17, 8:36 PM HST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 8:36 PM HST, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 17, 5:25 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKalawao105 min
Nov 17, 6:48 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO42 min
Nov 17, 7:02 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO118 min
Nov 17, 7:06 PM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFOKalawao5 hr
Nov 17, 8:05 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO37 min
Nov 17, 8:15 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO109 min
Nov 17, 8:46 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKalawao17 min
Nov 18, 3:50 AM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO55 min
Nov 18, 4:33 AM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKalawao3 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.