Flash Flood, Maui
- When
- January 19, 8:00 PM HST to January 20, 4:00 AM HST
- Where
- Maui County, Lahaina
- Property damage
- $536,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 20.868, -156.617 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Hawaii, January 19 to 20, 1997
Drainageways overflowed in Lahaina, flooding an underground parking lot and damaging several cars. Overall, residents and businesses reported losing hundreds of thousands of dollars from waters that inundated Lahaina town's low-lying Malu-ulu-o-Lele Park area between Prison and Shaw streets and on Wainee Street.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $536,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS HFO wrote it up.
Drainageways overflowed in Lahaina, flooding an underground parking lot and damaging several cars. Flooding closed a section of Kamehameha V Highway two miles east of Kaunakakai.Overall, residents and businesses reported losing hundreds of thousands of dollars from waters that inundated Lahaina town's low-lying Malu-ulu-o-Lele Park area between Prison and Shaw streets and on Wainee Street.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Debris Flow in Washington, January 19, 1997
- Cold in Florida, January 19, 1997
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, January 19, 1997
- Cold in New Mexico, January 19, 1997
- Cold in New York, January 19, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, January 19 to 20, 1997
- Cold in Vermont, January 19, 1997
- Cold in New York, January 19, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 19, 1997
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 19 to 20, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, January 19, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, January 19, 1997
More
Every storm in Hawaii in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Hawaii, January 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5623724.