Heavy Rain, Honolulu
- When
- January 28, 8:20 PM HST to January 29, 7:00 AM HST
- Where
- Honolulu County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 21.455, -157.961 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Hawaii, January 28 to 29, 2002
Heavy rain and showers produced minor stream and drainage ditch flooding and ponding of roadways over the entire island of Oahu. The heaviest rainfall was over the Koolau Range and from northwest of Kaneohe to Kahuku to Sunset Beach to Waimea Bay.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Heavy rain and showers produced minor stream and drainage ditch flooding and ponding of roadways over the entire island of Oahu. The heaviest rainfall was over the Koolau Range and from northwest of Kaneohe to Kahuku to Sunset Beach to Waimea Bay. There were no reports of serious injuries or property damage, however.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 28, 7:52 PM HST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 7:52 PM HST, 28 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Extreme Cold in California, January 28 to 31, 2002
- Winter Weather in Nevada, January 28, 2002
- Excessive Heat in West Virginia, January 28, 2002
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 28 to 30, 2002
- Excessive Heat in Ohio, January 28, 2002
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in California, January 28 to 29, 2002
- Excessive Heat in Kentucky, January 28, 2002
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 28 to 29, 2002
- High Wind in Colorado, January 28, 2002
- Winter Storm in Utah, January 28 to 30, 2002
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, January 28, 2002
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, January 28, 2002
More
Every storm in Hawaii in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Hawaii, January 2002
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5278595.