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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Honolulu, HI

April 8, 2026Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this high wind watch at Apr 8, 2026, 7:05 AM HST for Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii. It took effect at Apr 9, 2026, 6:00 AM HST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2026, 7:05 AM HST (17:05 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 9, 2026, 6:00 AM HST
Expired: Apr 9, 2026, 3:09 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 17:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Hilo, (PITO), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 457 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Apr 8, 4:04 AM HST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 4:04 AM HST, 3 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 1:15 AM HST, 5 hours 50 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
Apr 7, 2:55 PM HST	Areal Flood Advisory	HFO	Honolulu	3 hr
Apr 7, 5:06 PM HST	Areal Flood Advisory	HFO	Hawaii	6 hr
Apr 7, 6:14 PM HST	Areal Flood Advisory	HFO	Kalawao	43 min
Apr 7, 6:57 PM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Kalawao	5 hr
Apr 7, 7:40 PM HST	High Surf Advisory	HFO	Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, Kalawao	56 hr
Apr 7, 11:09 PM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Hawaii	6 hr
Apr 8, 1:31 AM HST	Areal Flood Advisory	HFO	Kalawao	6 hr
Apr 8, 2:27 AM HST	Special Marine Warning	HFO		2 hr
Apr 8, 3:15 AM HST	Winter Weather Advisory	HFO	Hawaii	72 hr
Apr 8, 3:37 AM HST	Gale Watch	HFO		36 hr
Apr 8, 3:37 AM HST	Small Craft Advisory	HFO		60 hr
Apr 8, 4:18 AM HST	Special Marine Warning	HFO		117 min
Apr 8, 6:12 AM HST	Special Marine Warning	HFO		2 hr
Apr 8, 8:10 AM HST	Special Marine Warning	HFO		2 hr
Apr 8, 9:11 AM HST	Flash Flood Warning	HFO	Hawaii	107 min
Apr 8, 9:37 AM HST	Areal Flood Advisory	HFO	Kalawao	100 min
Apr 8, 10:09 AM HST	Special Marine Warning	HFO		108 min
Apr 8, 1:28 PM HST	Wind Advisory	HFO	Hawaii, Honolulu	62 hr

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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.