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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Honolulu, HI

May 11, 2024Kalawao County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 2024, 8:14 PM HST for Kalawao County, Hawaii. It was in force for 2 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
May 11, 2024, 8:14 PM HST (06:14 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2024, 10:30 PM HST
In force
2 hr
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 06:16 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 11, 9:29 AM HST, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:29 AM HST, 10 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 2:44 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu2 hr
May 11, 3:36 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHawaii58 min
May 11, 4:07 PM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFOHonolulu60 min
May 11, 5:21 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu3 hr
May 11, 7:33 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKalawao41 min
May 11, 8:26 PM HSTSpecial Weather StatementHFO64 min
May 11, 8:29 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO93 min
May 11, 9:03 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHawaii5 hr
May 11, 9:43 PM HSTSpecial Marine WarningHFO2 hr
May 11, 10:30 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOKalawao108 min
May 12, 8:59 AM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu3 hr
May 12, 9:24 AM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFOHonolulu3 hr
May 12, 12:54 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHawaii3 hr
May 12, 12:58 PM HSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHFOHonolulu3 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.