Heavy Rain, Honolulu
- When
- March 7, 3:05 PM HST to 10:25 PM 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, March 7, 2002
Heavy showers produced ponding of roadways and minor stream and drainage ditch flooding over most of Oahu. However, there were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
Where it happened
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- 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 showers produced ponding of roadways and minor stream and drainage ditch flooding over most of Oahu. However, there were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
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 Mar 7, 2:23 PM HST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 2:23 PM HST, 42 minutes before
NARRATIVE SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION FOR AMERICAN SAMOA AND THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY... SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW THAT SKIES HAVE BECOME MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER SAMOA OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS WITH SOME LIGHT SHOWERS BEING REPORTED. A SURFACE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE LIES JUST TO THE NORTH OF YOU BUT THIS IS NOT HELPING KEEP MOISTURE FROM A FRONTAL SYSTEM WELL TO YOUR SOUTH FROM MOVING INTO YOUR AREA. THE AVN MODEL KEEPS THIS MOISTURE AREA JUST TO YOUR SOUTH SO LITTLE CHANGE IN YOUR WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THUS YOU WILL HAVE PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH THE SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS WILL BE GENERALLY FROM THE NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 KNOTS. A SOUTHERLY SWELL OF 3 TO 5 FEET WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. OUTLOOK FOR SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THE RIDGE IS FORECAST TO MOVE BACK OVER THE SAMOAN ISLANDS... RESULTING IN LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. SKIES WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. THE SOUTHERLY SWELL WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH. NARRATIVE DISCUSSION FOR TUVALU TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...TUVALU TIME... SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF FUNAFUTI. THIS SHOWER AREA IS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE WEST AND MAY GIVE FUNAFUTI A FEW SHOWERS. OTHERWISE A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE LIES JUST TO TO SOUTH OF YOU. THUS YOUR WINDS WILL REMAIN NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 KNOTS. SKIES WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD.
The radar
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Nevada, March 7, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in California, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 7, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, March 7, 2002
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 7 to 9, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, March 7 to 8, 2002
More
Every storm in Hawaii in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Hawaii, March 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5287330.