Alert archive / Hawaii

Weather alerts in Kauai County, Hawaii

2,200 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kauai County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,200
Warnings
614
Watches
232
Advisories
1,267
Busiest year
2018159 alerts
Average year
79over 28 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, of tornado reports in Kauai County fell inside a tornado warning, and 75% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
202020100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008010%
201030100%0
201110100%0
20133167%333%7 min
201910100%0
202070100%0
20222150%333%54 min
202410100%0
202510100%20%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810460%683%216 min
200915380%4100%214 min
20107443%1100%122 min
201113285%0
201210640%25100%212 min
201314564%1080%204 min
20147271%2100%109 min
20154250%2100%71 min
20165260%2100%82 min
20176267%2100%74 min
201819953%1776%131 min
20199367%6100%80 min
202010460%12100%231 min
202113377%1471%205 min
20224175%1100%140 min
202312925%10100%125 min
20243167%17100%405 min
202520100%10%

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 7, 7:38 PM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO9 hr
Sep 7, 11:11 AM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO6 hr
Sep 7, 10:17 AM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO3 hr
Sep 6, 11:08 PM HSTHurricane WarningHFO33 hr
Sep 6, 2:44 PM HSTHigh Surf WarningHFO49 hr
Sep 6, 4:51 AM HSTTropical Storm WarningHFO51 hr
Aug 16, 11:46 AM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO6 hr
Aug 14, 4:47 AM HSTTropical Storm WarningHFO63 hr
Jul 27, 9:04 AM HSTHigh Surf WarningHFO42 hr
Jun 14, 9:54 AM HSTHigh Surf WarningHFO41 hr
Apr 9, 6:40 PM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO6 hr
Apr 9, 4:44 PM HSTFlash Flood WarningHFO3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.