Name: Heavy Rain in Hawaii, January 10, 2005
Start: 2005-01-10T17:25
End: 2005-01-10T23:27
Location: Hawaii

Where it happened

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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 small stream and drainage ditch flooding in eastern and southern parts of the Big Island of Hawaii. There were no reports of serious injuries or property damage.

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 10, 4:00 PM HST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 4:00 PM HST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 10, 4:35 PM HST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
435 PM HST MON JAN 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0900 PM     HEAVY RAIN       PRINCEVILLE             22.22N 159.49W
01/08/2005  0.00 INCH        KAUAI              HI   PUBLIC

            VERY HEAVY BLOWING HORIZONTAL RAIN FOR 10-15 MINUTES.

1130 PM     HIGH SUST WINDS  WAIALUA                 21.58N 158.13W
01/08/2005  60 MPH           HONOLULU           HI   PUBLIC

            STRONG WINDS 50-60 MPH EST. PALM FRONDS FLYING, HEDGE
            BENT OVER.

1145 PM     LIGHTNING        2 S KAILUA              21.38N 157.74W
01/08/2005                   HONOLULU           HI   TRAINED SPOTTER

            NO WIND FREQUENT LIGHTNING TOWARDS THE NORTH.

1157 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 NNE HALAWA            21.41N 157.91W
01/08/2005  54 MPH           HONOLULU           HI   AWOS

            KAWAILOA TRAINING AREA. RAWS 54 MPH PEAK WIND.

1205 AM     TSTM WND GST     WHEELER AFB             21.48N 158.04W
01/09/2005  55 MPH           HONOLULU           HI   AWOS

            RAWS 55 MPH WIND GUST

1232 AM     TSTM WND GST     1 NNW KAILUA            21.42N 157.74W
01/09/2005  0 MPH            HONOLULU           HI   NWS EMPLOYEE

            FORECASTER REPORTS WIND DAMAGE TO FENCE AND ELSEWHERE.

0104 AM     TSTM WND GST     SCHOFIELD BARRACKS      21.50N 158.07W
01/09/2005  63 MPH           HONOLULU           HI   AWOS

            RAWS REPORTS 63 MPH WIND GUST.

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The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Hawaii

When: January 10, 5:25 PM HST to 11:27 PM HST
Where: Hawaii County, Hilo
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 19.602, -155.523 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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

More

Every storm in Hawaii in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Hawaii, January 2005

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5435258.