Heavy Rain, Kauai
- When
- March 7, 4:00 PM HST
- Where
- Kauai County, 6 mi NNW of Anahola
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 22.011, -159.705 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Hawaii, March 7, 2002
Heavy showers caused ponding of roadways and minor drainage ditch and stream flooding in eastern and northeastern parts of Kauai. No significant property damage or injuries were reported.
Where it happened
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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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 caused ponding of roadways and minor drainage ditch and stream flooding in eastern and northeastern parts of Kauai. No significant property damage or injuries were reported.
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, 4:00 PM HST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 4:00 PM HST, 0 minutes before
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION AND GUIDANCE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 4 PM HST THU MAR 7 2002 SUMMARY...THE AIRMASS OVER THE WESTERN END OF THE STATE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE BUT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT BROKE OUT OVER OAHU THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD END BY EVENING. HIGH CLOUDS ARE SPREADING OVER THE STATE FROM THE SOUTHWEST. TRADE WINDS WILL RETURN ON FRIDAY AS A WEAK HIGH MOVES BY TO OUR NORTH. THIS WILL ALSO BRING A FEW NIGHT AND MORNING SHOWERS TO WINDWARD SECTIONS. TRADES WILL TURN SOUTHEAST ON SUNDAY IN ADVANCE OF YET ANOTHER EPISODE OF UNSETTLED WEATHER FOR THE STATE. DISCUSSION...THE RAOB SOUNDING FROM LIHUE INDICATES CONTINUING INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE WESTERN END OF THE STATE. HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL OAHU THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SHOULD END WITH THE COOLING OF EVENING. MORE STABLE CONDITIONS SHOULD RETURN ON FRIDAY WITH THE TRADES AS A WEAK HIGH PRESSURE CENTER MOVES BY FROM WEST TO EAST NORTH OF THE STATE. THIS WILL KEEP MODERATE TRADES GOING OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE THROUGH MONDAY. ON THE OTHER HAND...THE WEAK INVERTED TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN END OF THE STATE WILL KEEP WINDS ON THE LIGHTER SIDE... VARIABLE TONIGHT AND THEN LIGHT TO MODERATE EASTERLIES THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...AND MODERATE SOUTHEASTERLIES SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS WEST OF THE STATE. EXPECT JUST ISOLATED TRADE SHOWERS THROUGH THE WEEKEND...LEADING TO MORE GENERAL SCATTERED SHOWERS EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE LOW PRESSURE TO OUR WEST BEGINS TO AFFECT THE STATE. LONGER RANGE FORECAST CHARTS KEEP THE STATE WET WITH LOW PRESSURES DEVELOPING TO OUR WEST AND NORTH INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH GENERALLY LIGHT WIND CONDITIONS CONTINUING ALL THROUGH NEXT WEEK. FARRELL .HFO...WARNINGS.....FLASH FLOOD FOR CENTRAL OAHU UNTIL 610 PM . WATCHES......NONE . ADVISORIES...NONE
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: 5287331.